Learning

 Learning - Day 2

This is day 2 of the challenge - A story a day, keeps the boredom away. Each day I'll try to reach my goal of 500 words a day. Today I'll be writing about my day and about how I learned at school today.

Today, at school, I found learning to be pretty hard. I'm not sure if this is just a me thing, or possibly many people also find it hard to learn quickly. I find it pretty hard to focus on something when there's not much of a point or fun in it. I was just casually listening to the teacher till I randomly lost focus and started to do something else, and I sort of lost track and forgot what the teacher had said. Luckily, I asked my brother beside me, and he reassured me of everything the teacher had said and what we had to do and done.

The difference between the teacher explanation and what my brother had told me was a big difference. The teacher explanation was long and explanatory but was sort of rambling a bit too long; my brother explanation was just as good but much shorter with the same amount of detail. Another thing is that, while the teacher was explaining a lot, he was also telling about a lot of other stuff that we then had to write down and memorize for the next lesson next week. I found this very inefficient and very confusing. It was ineffective as by just throwing tons of words and different lessons in a speech where you're supposed to focus on a single topic makes it very ineffective to figure out which one to memorize and learn, leading to confusion on what to know and what to not know. At the end, your only way of being in the safe zone is to store all of the minimal details and information that you got from the teacher into your brain and be ready for next week by revising.

A better way of explaining would be to make a few short speeches while each one about a single topic in each speech or paragraph. On top of that, it would be better to expand on that speech and tell how to use it. When the teacher explained a certain meaning in an Arabic language, he only said the meaning and not how to use it - as after he said that it can mean different things in different parts of a sentence and a different type of sentence. Then after you make your multiple small speeches, you can present it to the class and make sure everyone understands each topic that you are trying to teach instead of telling a bunch and only focusing at one at the end, theoretically wasting a bunch of time.

I also learned this in my English lessons about how the teacher said, to get somebody attention and interest, you have to at least make the paragraphs you're speaking to make more sense and more simpler. Giving the audience an easier way to do the task that you are providing them with and an easier way to implement that in their other writings.

At the end, we all have different and a unique way of learning all together. Some learn quick, some slow, some weirdly, some regularly, unique, the list goes on and on... But for me, I learn slow and it's pretty hard for me to concentrate without getting bored. Thank you for reading.