Hello owls
Hello. It is 11:54PM. Sometimes, some motivation strikes where I blog a little and send random fragments of words to the abyss of the internet.
Type of Learner:
I think most say they are visual learners — as am I. Howevaaaa, I am more of a kinesthetic learner. I am faster at learning movements than grasping abstract concepts in my head. It makes a big difference for me when I learn something and my body is moving along to a beat — like dancing. I can pick up sports, like playing tennis or powerlifting, and am aware enough to adjust my posture or technique.
On the other hand, adjusting and being aware of my thought process is a lot harder. It isn’t something I can feel or see necessarily. An example would be trying to understand closures. I had no idea at first, except simply knowing it was a function in a function.
While learning sports and dance moves is convenient for a kinesthetic learner, how does one understand something you can’t see or touch? Imagination is probably key and some crazy hand movements, looking like a crazy person.
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Eventually, visualization and the pretending of moving through my visuals helped, but I just didn’t know how to combine different skills of learning into such topics.
With CS topics like closures, I decided to read about it over and over again, explained in different ways, while coding the examples. The doing is key — which everyone knows. Now I can say I understand closures enough where I can visualize how it works through some stupid analogy about a treasure chest within the scope of my room. Though what really helped was learning the vocabulary (lexical vs global scoping) and the rules about scoping.
I also absorb information if I am patient enough to read, but talk at me, your words might go right through the other ear if it even reaches the first ear to begin with. Concentration is a hard skill.
On another note. I almost forgot I got to meet Dan Ingalls last year. Pretty cool.
Maybe it’s time I get some shut eye.
