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Journal 10: Transfer and Reflection

 

        After reading How People Learn, I began to understand that what the authors were discussing that learning and transfer work together sort of like a cycle. People are obviously born without knowledge but with time develop a sense of learning and retain the knowledge that is they have recited with their eyes. They discuss how what is learned is then transferred into different types of context further spreading the knowledge. Now they also discuss how the transferring is seen, while the purpose of it is to use work and then transform it into something else, it is also believed to further ‘educate’ people in essence people adapt to it and then use it as a training method to perform certain task. Throughout their discussion is becomes evident that the relationship between learning and transferring is that they both equally play a role in how people experience the learning; sometimes the learning transfer is positive or negative depends on the approach.

        The relationships I see between transfer and learning is how they intertwine into one. Transfer is not only directed to the obvious process of recycling and introducing information or knowledge it is those things but is not limited to them. Transfer can also be how a person receives or retains that instruction how efficient is could have been or was to that individual. Another relationship I see between transfer and learning are the elements that they both share such as activities which are used in the transfer process within these activities there is a purpose and that is learned through the activity.

        Reflection plays an important role in these processes. Reflection has a lot to do with learning seeing that whatever the topic/subject was is being thought over and put into a context that that individual understands. An individual processes what has been thought and generally finds a way to relate that matter back to themselves that is how they are able to learn and transfer what they learned into a different product or enhance what they learned into something different. Reflection also plays a role in transfer because the work that is being transferred is being look over is being reflected upon based on its ideas and how valid or not it is.

        Developing my own idea on composing may help me transfer this knowledge into new context because I am developing a thought process where I am constantly learning how to put the pieces together my main three steps of composing are genre, audience, and rhetorical situation within these steps (parts) there are other components that make up that one step. These are the little details that with each work one learns and puts together to compose a final piece. Throughout the entirety of my ENC 1102 class I have been developing my idea of composing and what it consist of and I can say that I have transferred that knowledge into different contexts with the first assignment my group and I created a context that was aimed towards kindergarteners using things that would particularly interest them, for the second assignment I wrote a formal paper on my major with a specific audience of undergraduate students, and for my third assignment I composed a variety of mediums such as a brochure, a game, and a motivational speech that were all aimed towards the learning process of economics. This in its entirety has helped me realize how this knowledge is put into different context and how it reciprocates the process of learning and transfer.