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Imperceptibly arrived at the last blog, time passed really fast. I have to say, I really gained a lot of knowledge from this course that I didn’t know before, and I also realized the fun of writing from creating the blog. This is a rare life experience and asset for me. For our final blog post, we asked for a video clip. I had almost no experience in video editing before. What I did was to record my life in fragments without thinking of categorizing and integrating them. In the process of video editing, I further realized that this is not only a skill we should learn, but also makes life more meaningful.

The video I edited is about some fragments of my personal life from 2020 to 2022. I used the app iMovie. I downloaded these small videos from the mobile phone to the computer, cut them into a suitable length and put them together, and added a background music. I think it was a successful attempt as a beginner.

I further realized the fun of this aspect, and I believe that I will keep the habit of video editing in the future.

Before I started assignment 3, I really had no idea about this requirement. Because I wrote every blog post carefully, I don’t know where to update it. But when I looked into what I had learned in this course, I found that there was still some room for improvement.
Of course this course was my first exposure to a similar type of course, which was blogging. I have always been a weak person in writing, and usually I do not exercise this ability consciously. Therefore, it is also a good opportunity for me to experience the pleasure of recording my feelings and opinions in words. I also cherish this opportunity.
From the perspective of the course itself, this course has taught me the importance of learning methods and multimedia. I am glad that digital teaching has become popular in our daily life. In addition, it was the first time for me to contact canva, the world’s 13th web page, which was much more convenient than the traditional PPT I was used to. All of this, I believe, is due to the modern digital dissemination of information.

In our daily life communication and learning, creation and design are also closely related to us. Whenever we learn a new knowledge, just understanding the explanations and exercises in the book may not make us understand the knowledge in a real sense. At this time, perhaps creating relevant learning experience and materials will enable us to better understand and apply the new knowledge in this process. In the process of creation, we can also embed our own insights, and in the process of sharing with others, we can also improve our own capabilities.

In the previous study, PPT may meet most of our needs, and we will use PPT to help us integrate and understand. But in fact, the template and layout of PPT sometimes seem crowded and messy, which may lead to confusion of thinking and lack of interest in learning, So Canva is a better choice.

In fact, this was my first encounter with Canva, and it was a new experience for me. Canva was previously ranked 13th in the world’s Top 100 Tools for Learning, just behind word documents, which we often use. Compared with traditional PPT, canva’s page is more concise and easy to understand, and more suitable for understanding and propaganda. I also look forward to experiencing more and more fun of learning Canva in the future.

As the saying goes, it is never too late to learn, and learning is what we have been studying since we were born. From when we were born to learn to talk and walk, to the age of the growing school to learn knowledge and culture, learning can be said to be everywhere.

Through today’s reading and learning, I have learned that learning can be divided into 8 principles, which are independent but closely related to each other. If I had used any methods in my first 20 years of study and life, I believed they were readiness, exercise and recency. In fact, the overall education model in China is relatively rigid, which I think is due to the fact that China has a large population and limited opportunities, so there is a lot of competition. Therefore, I had been exposed to more exam-oriented education since I was a child.

To be specific, I have been taught to study for exams since childhood. When I was in primary school, my mother would enroll me in various interest classes, which took up a lot of my spare time. Not only do I need to finish my homework in class, but I also need to finish a lot of extra homework. As much as I hate to do it, I hate to be inferior to others. What I didn’t know was that this was actually bad for my study habits and I didn’t feel the pleasure of learning.

After I came to foreign countries, I found that the education mode here is more flexible. Accordingly, I also need to spend more time on self-restraint and planning in private.

In fact, I was not used to such a learning mode at the beginning. Suddenly, I broke away from the supervision and discipline of the teacher, which made me lack of self-discipline in the beginning of my study and life, and also delayed some lessons. But I gradually found my own way of learning, and it felt even better than when someone was watching me. At the beginning, I did not know the reason for this, but after learning this course, I realized that many education modes and concepts in my country did not follow the basic learning principles, which led to my unhappy study.

The diagram above illustrates several important core about learning ideas in the simplest possible terms, which is exactly what I want to express. All the supervision and urging of the outside world are inferior to someone’s own love and desire for knowledge, and the correct learning method is the best teacher to stimulate the passion of learning. This is more useful than any other power.

Of course, although I have explored the road of learning for so long, I still have many shortcomings. For example, due to too many tasks, I forget that I am most willing to learn when I feel pleasant and satisfying, which indirectly leads to my low learning efficiency and the effect is just the opposite. And I am also trying to connect learning with things I am interested in to help me understand and apply them more deeply.
To put it into a nutshell, learning is everyone’s lifelong lesson, only find the right way will get the most benefit from it.

Reference

GrggU. [GrggU]. (2019, October 6). General Principles of Learning. [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd_di_cqGQ&t=158s

Sovorel. [2020]. Core Adult Learning Principles. [Infographic]. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=T8hLke6A&id=1FFAAE799845BB6621853F9C70EE1C422628B402&thid=OIP.T8hLke6AQub_b57AdootdAHaKK&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fsovorelpublishing.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2019%2f12%2fCore-Adult-Learning-Principles-infographic-BrentAnders.png&cdnurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR.4fc84b91ee8042e6ff6f9ec0768a2d74%3frik%3dArQoJkIc7nCcPw%26pid%3dImgRaw%26r%3d0&exph=3500&expw=2550&q=study+principle&simid=608016727777827371&FORM=IRPRST&ck=EFBFAD019EB0202E372551B65339F1E0&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0