Franc Lockwood Stream Of Interest

After reading “On Becoming a Better Student” by Donna Farhi Schuster, I started to think about some of the idea she mentioned. I have always been a curious person. I have always wanted to learn more about what I was interested in, but that stopped in high school. Expressing interest in something in high school was not something I did often. I was so overwhelmed with busy work in school that I was exhausted by the time I had time to actually sit down and research something I was interested in.

Paying attention in class and listening to the teacher helps you learn what’s going to be on a final. And even though the work seems hard having concentration you will soon understand it. “Listen to your teacher and stay focused. Be sure you understand the lesson. If you don’t understand ask questions”(Page, Top 10 Skills for High-School Students).

As you read you build a connection with the information. Like circuits on a motherboard, each connection brings together the necessary pieces to process and store information. As you gather more information you will be able to find a deeper meaning, and with that a greater purpose. In Sven Birtkerts essay “The Owl Has Flown” he talks about vertical and horizontal thinking. Vertical thinking, where you focus on one subject. Studying it intensively, at length, becoming an expert or even master of the subject. For only with thorough analysis and examination can one gain wisdom. Whereas horizontal thinking is more the learning many things about a wide variety of different topics. Never fully gaining more than a superficial understanding. Lacking the mastery and expertise you gain with exclusive study and focus. Birkerts feels that with the increase in available knowledge that people would rather skim through information than deeply study a subject. With the explosion of the internet and the multitude of informational resources like magazines, websites, newspapers, etc. I can see how he comes to this conclusion. Birkerts also talks about the impact that our ways of gathering and dispersing information have as it casts a significant influence on our reality. He says, “For how we receive information bears vitally on the ways we experience and interpret reality” (31). I feel that there is truth to this statement. For when we take in information we evaluate what we have already

1. Read - around the topics you are learning about or want to learn about and develop

In the first video “Beliefs That Make You Fail… Or Succeed” Dr. Steven Chew started off by stating you, the student, cannot become an A student overnight with little to no effort. He made a great point by saying “…students base their study behavior on their beliefs of how they best learn”, I agree with this statement because this could be the reason as to why everyone learns in many different ways. He went over three key facts which fall under “Beliefs That Make You Stupid”, which the first was you should always plan ahead of time because your assignments or reading will most likely take longer than you expected them to, therefore be realistic about your timing. The second key fact would be don’t isolate your learning, this meaning to be open minded because teachers look for conception and if you try to constantly remember the things you’re not really understanding what you’re going over. Thirdly, you aren’t born and automatically good at that subject. You must actually work towards achieving a high success in that subject matter. When it comes to being distracted you’re just losing more

After seeing the video of professor Chew’s talk on “How to get the most out of studying, part 1” I realize the mistakes I’m doing when I’m studying. I been doing the same mistake since high school and now I know why I was struggling so much in some classes. Because I was multitasking most of the time when I was studying and being over confidents about knowing the topic I wasted a lot of time learning.

This mindset has drastically helped with my academic performance. I have discovered that the best way for me to learn new material is through repetition. I have spent hours the past few years working and re-working accounting problems and copying my notes until I have them engrained in my mind. Elie showed me that with a little hard work and practice, you can achieve greatness.

Saint Bonaventure was born in Umbria, Italy to parents Giovanni di Fidanza who was a physician and Maria Ritella, he was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher, and there is not a lot of information about his childhood. He fell ill while he was young and was saved from death by the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi. He was born as Giovanni di Fidanza just like his father but later on be canonized by Pope Sixtus IV. He would be also later on declared a Doctor of the church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V.

It has to do with a certain spark, using the words of an authority named Dewey: Interest, he notes, means “being engaged, engrossed, or entirely taken up with” a particular subject. John Dewey wrote those words in his essay “Interest and Effort in Education” exactly 100 years ago.

Silvia stated the functions of interest to be learning and exploration motivations. People acknowledge the fact that interest boosts performance and motivation and actually apply it to their lives. The example stated in the article is that in order to make a task more interesting, people modify the task to make it more complex or work with a friend. One can find no negative aspect in interest, because one never knows if one might need a new knowledge or experience later in the future. Interest can be said to involve taking

Motivation - i need to be interested in a topic/module in order for me to motivate myself quickly, its the first push i need to get me started.

Consciousness, or awareness, is another helpful aspect of becoming a good student. The good student must be aware of their (agr) surroundings and know what is going on in the world around them. We must strive to relate what is happening around us to what we are learning. This should be important to us because we should care about what is going on politically, academically, socially, and spiritually. Being aware and paying attention is a good trait to continually learn and apply.

Besides, I have the problem to find the key points and important facts during the lectures, and I am wasting my time writing down the points which not necessary. I cannot see the overall concept which the lectures try to deliver and the important ideas. I don’t want this to be a problem for me anymore as it may affect my study and my concentration during lecture time. So I make a step to seek and think what the main concept is, and I try relating all the ideas of the course so that I can see clearly the overall picture and understand the topics that I learn. I also read the notes and make an effort to understand the lesson that will teach before going to the lecture. This helps me to give the overall idea of new topic that I will learn.

My observations has taught me the importance of engaging students. I am now able to recognize when a student is not engaged. They seem distracted and are not paying attention to what the teacher is saying. Whereas an engaged student is alert, discussing the material, and asking questions

2. When an inner need to do something meets with the inner urge spontaneous Interest is generated. When the inner urge or the Interest finds a suitable working condition it leads to spontaneous Repetition. When this spontaneous Repetition of an activity is done with interest the natural result is Concentration. Concentration is not the end product of education, its just the beginning. Any true learning happens with concentration. The children revealed that given the right conditions they would work with concentration.