Blog Post #4: How I Learn Reflection

Throughout my past, the way I've learned has been more visual than anything else. If something was explained to me, I wouldn't comprehend and remember the information unless I saw it written down and I was also writing it down. Presently my learning habits have altered to where I can now retain much more information through hearing than I did in my past, but at times I also need to see the information written down to comprehend it. I no longer require the need to write down information to remember things. In the future I believe I'll be able to understand and remember things only through verbal consultation. When I was in grade-school I explicitly remember writing everything down. Now that I'm in college, at times, I write things down, but only as a preliminary way of avoiding the break of my concentration with listening to the instructor. According to the book, Learning at Work: How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning, it defines adult learning as integrative and that adults desire control when they are learning. This information is detailed on page 144 in chapter 5. The website, http://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/teaching/andragogy.htm, details the definition and small detail of andragogy and pedagogy.

ITEC 444: Blog Post #3

How might learning styles differ or evolve, from the time individuals are freshmen in college to when they graduate and take on a new job?

Learning styles may evolve through the creation of newer technology being introduced within that time. The way that learning styles may differ is through a school teaching mostly or only book-work, whereas with a corporation most things are hands-on. According to the text, Learning at Work: How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning, the book details that corporations have learned from their past mistakes and successes which has evolved to now incorporate internal suggestions of the corporation and external evaluations of other corporations.

ITEC 444: Blog Post 2

Assessing what people need to learn is a matter of asking the right questions. Why is this so? What does it mean?

The reason the right questions must be assessed towards those attempting to learn is to address the things they have already learned and to distinguish wether they have learned them correctly. The book, Learning at Work: How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning, proclaims learning assessment as the process of identifying what employees know so that they can be taught to successfully complete their jobs. This means that an employee has to be thoroughly analyzed upon the things they successfully know how to do for their job. This allows the corporation to validify what this employee needs to learn. According to "http://www.needsassessment.org/", needs assessment can be generally noted as training and learning to accomplish having a successful workplace.