Thursday, April 4, 2013


“The only source of knowledge is experience:”

 Albert Einstein

Learning involves participation in a community of practice. I agree with this sentence because we can learn a lot from the books but …there’s with the practice when we really know what we know.

Relating with the social learning theory which posits: “that people learn from observing other people”, in Spanish we have a very famous sentence: “al lugar que fueres haz lo que vieres.” Or either way with observation we can see what happens with this or that action. It helps us to know something from the acting of others.

We never finished learning. We start learning from our mom when we are infants and we continue learning throughout our lives. Sometimes the learning gets from a hard experience or as a result of a difficult action.

Another famous phrase in Spanish: “la práctica hace al maestro.” The teachers might count from their teaching with the experience of what to do or how to work in different situations. Teachers must keep in their journal of “teaching practice” the most important events of their dairy routine.

“Initially people have to join communities and learn at the periphery.” I totally agree with this statement, and I consider it is the way it should be, because we need to see where we are getting in and then get in.

"Legitimate peripheral participation" provides a way to speak about the relations between newcomers and old-timers, and about activities, identities, and communities of knowledge and practice. I relate this with a person when is training to somebody else who will take his/her place.

Learning is in the conditions that bring people together and organize a point of contact that allows for particular pieces of information to take on relevance; without the points of contact, without the system of relevancies, there is not learning, and there is little memory. Learning does not belong to individual persons, but to the various conversations of which they are a part. We all are part of a society and we give and receive during the process of living which is process of learning.

Gardner (1999: 24) puts it, 'intelligence is better thought of as "distributed" in the world rather than "in the head"'.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Edna,
    I really enjoy reading your post about learning. I totally agree that learning comes through practice, experience and training. I think that the knowledge and the skills are the result of learning.
    By the way, this is one of my favorites:

    “Tell me Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”.
    -Benjamin Franklin

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  2. Hi Edna,
    I liked your post. As you said the key for learning is not just on the books, it is on practicing and envolving students to learn the topics it is better than just writing or repeating.
    One other important thing is that we learn with others and sometimes when we make mistakes we even learn more.

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  3. Hi friends Sara and Nohemi,

    thanks for read my post and for comment something on it.
    Sara, yes, I like that phrase, too.
    Nohemi, yes, you are right! We learn from others and from our mistakes and even errors.

    Greetings girls!
    Edna :)

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  4. Hi Edna,

    From what you have learnt about situated learning, how might this be applied in the context of your social service placement? Do your students have any experiences which could be related to situated learning? What could you do to allow for this type of learning in your receiving instutition?

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