Writing about how I learn and what learning is in my blog posts this year, has given me a lot of new insight about myself. I have learned new ways to think and help myself learn by doing research for these posts.
I think that the most important thing that I have learned about learning is that everyone learns at their own pace. I have always been told this throughout school but I have never understood that it is actually true. I have realized that it is okay if I learn at a slower pace than the person sitting next to me. I have seen that I am not the only one who takes a little longer to grasp things. This is not only comforting, but makes me feel more confident as a student.
OHS is a hard school which means that I am surrounded by other kids who can listen to one lecture and understand everything there is to know about the subject. I have come to realize that OHS is also a large school which means that I am surrounded by others who need more repetition as I do sometimes.
Spending a little more time studying and learning is not a bad thing. It does not mean you are any less smart than everyone else. It just means that you need more practice and anyway, doesn’t practice make perfect? I am so glad to have learned so much about learning this year and I hope I can continue to learn more and more about how I learn.
Hi Olivia, I know what you are talking about! OHS is a big school, so it makes sense that there are people who learn faster than others and those who learn slower than others. I think that studying does not make you less smart, if you need to study then you should do it. The way we learn is all different and you should take pride in what you do. It is sometimes difficult for me to learn Spanish vocab words for example, but after looking through them for half an hour or so every day they start to make sense to me.
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Audrey Karber
4/30/2015 10:31:10 am
Hey Olivia!
I completely agree with you on this post. I am such a slow learner and it takes me many tries and tries to fully understand something. I hate being surrounded by those people(like you mentioned) that can listen to a lecture and then understand everything, and it makes me feel so dumb haha. I feel that OHS there are a ton of those types of people but I am glad that I am not alone and that you are a slow learner like me and that makes me feel better. Especially when I am reading for lit I find that I have to read the same section over and over again till I get an idea of what is going on. Do you find yourself doing that too?
-Audrey
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Ms. D.
5/4/2015 11:16:32 pm
Olivia,
I am glad that blogging about learning has been beneficial to you. And you absolutely speak truth to power about folks learning at different paces. I had to study hard in high school, harder than all my smarty-pants friends, and I, too, learned that that was perfectly fine.
I've enjoyed reading your posts this year, Olivia.
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