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MIT 2007-2009

Definitions of Learning

(Maria, Johan, Laura C.) Learning: acquiring and refining information
(Alex, Tarra, Kahlil) Learning is grasping new concepts, exploring the unknown, productive, fun, exciting, hard, time consuming, natural, culturally based, a survival impairative, living, doing, continuous, possible only through connection, both communal and conceptual. It is the process wherein information, experience or critical thinking skills are internalized.
(Joe, Terry, Nicole) Learning is: synthesizing new information into one's undertanding through active non-judgmental inquiry.
(Stephanie, Anne, Yonk) Learning is the building of neural dendrites through new experiences and thickening of the mylin sheath through practice.
(Karina, Amanda, Kevin) Learning is the process of dendritic growth and the thickening of the myelin sheath through experiences, obtaining and recollectng information.
(Ashley, Desiree, Stephen) Learning is a process of acquiring information, knowledge and skills through a variety of means for a variety of purposes.
(Sammi, Betsy, Lorri) Learning is optimizing the survival of the body and mind through the acquisition and processing of new information.
(Jeremy, Mandy, Shelly) Learning is the human ability to increase the capacity for knowledge by way of physiologically changing brain cell structure, and strength, and therefore developing the ability to participate in ones own culture.
(Andrea, Allen, Kari) Learning is a physiological event that results in the growth of dendritic branching and synaptic uptake, which results in the growth of the individual's knowledge base.
(Robbie, Bec, Jerrie) Learning is a process of questioning, exploring, forming, developing, engaging, and accumulating knowledge of both the internal and
external, physical and cultural environment.
(Katy, Kathy, Laura H.) Learning is gaining an understanding of what you know and don't know and incorporating knolwedge to build on existing thoughts and informtion.
(Chalen, Claudia, Jamie)
- Learning is developing questions and seeking answers
- Learning is change
- Learning is making new connections in the brain, growing new dendrites, and pruning old ones
- Learning is strengthening recall through practice
- Learning is making connections based on our experiences
- Learning is discovering something new
- Learning is adapting
- Learning is like evolution
(Sandra, Pamela, Megan)
- Learning is the process of acquiring and understanding information