tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726570.post115392135082601467..comments2023-10-15T04:06:47.794-04:00Comments on Tales of a 9th grade Tuba Player: multitasking and learningsusansinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12902873240114986043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726570.post-1154014776290110372006-07-27T11:39:00.000-04:002006-07-27T11:39:00.000-04:00You say "Learning is different from performing." A...You say "Learning is different from performing." Are conversations always about performance? Aren't we listening, as well, and learning in that process? I guess my concern with all of this is that it places learning within the individual brain, rather than in the social activity among individuals. I don't know much about theories of distributed cognition, but I wonder how such ideas might change this conversation we're having now?susansinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12902873240114986043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726570.post-1153954517802121422006-07-26T18:55:00.000-04:002006-07-26T18:55:00.000-04:00Learning is different from performing - You can ha...Learning is different from performing - You can have a conversation with several people and keep the topics straight but if you try to learn something new or to a deeper degree, it interferes. <BR/><BR/>Once we learn several ideas that are related to each other, we 'chunk' the ideas together, like a macro where one button puts many jobs in motion at once or in some order. You think of one thing "a chair" and many ideas or images of what a chair means or what we can use it for flow automatically - our bias, stereotyping, classifications, etc. The brain usually learns one thing at a time and it sometimes takes several exposures to imprint the idea in your brain and it takes repeated exposures over time. Some things can be learned quickly when the 'aha' moment comes or we learn while we have strong emotional reactions (positive or negative) at about the same time. <BR/><BR/>Multitasking different unrelated activities gets us to trip over ourselves. We can do it but it is inefficient and can confuse the knowledge we already have or are learning at that time. It's interesting to see what we learned years ago now take on a different meaning when we have learned more about it or related subjects. We have added more to our knowedge of what we knew. A new idea must be focused on exclusively for a while to be clear about it and properly categorize it with what we know or create new categories of ideas or facts. This takes time. Just a few thoughts.Larry007https://www.blogger.com/profile/02402316478340735822noreply@blogger.com