A NEW LOOK AT LEARNING

 Introduction to learning 

Learning is a complicated practice. Several thousand years ago, the primary obligation of the human brain was to figure out how to find food, avoid getting eaten by a predator (including finding a safe place to sleep), and find a mate. Now, in addition to those basic human functions, our brains are inundated with other facts and tasks that need to be learned.We all learn throughout our lives. We learn how to tie our shoes, the best route to get to the mall, which friends we can trust, how to find the area of a circle, and how to write a research paper. Surprisingly, very few people are taught how to learn.Not only that learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviours, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants

LEARN AND BRAIN

Armed with these two ways of thinking, the analytic critical and the synthetic orientative, we can now turn to the philosophy of mind and brain before looking at how this relates to education. You may be wondering why philosophy of mind and brain—should it not be psychology? Neroscience researchers have shown that when you learn something new, some cells in your brain interact with other brain cells and form new cell networks, representing the new learning that has taken place. When running frequently, these new networks have the potential to become long-term memories. Every time you use or train new information or skills, the connections between brain cells become stronger and it is easier to recall information. New learning requires considerable training and a meaningful connection with other information in order to become a more permanent part of memory.

KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE

Emphasizes the relationship between knowledge and practice and the theoretical aspects of both, assuming that “the knowledge teachers need to teach well emanates from systematic inquiries about teaching, learners and learning, curriculum, schools and schooling. Importance to applications of Knowledge. Knowledge is growing and expanding. Existing knowledge to be applied to new situations.Knowledge is that which leads to further knowledge.

Cramming: “Learning” Without 

Remembering

What study techniques can students use to avoid cramming? A technique known as “spaced learning” is much more effective for short term recall and long time retention. Spaced learning is when students review the material over a long period of time. This gives their minds time to form connections between the ideas and concepts. This knowledge can be build upon easily recalled later. Cramming may seem like an effective way for students to prepare for a test, but it only leads to more stress and disappointing performance. To get most out of learning, the solution is constant, repeated exposure to the material, and a well rested and healthy mind.

EPISTEMOLOGY 

Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind’s relation to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And if we do, how and when do we know things? These questions , and so the field of epistemology, is as old as philosophy itself. Answering these questions requires considering the relationship between knowledge, truth, belief, reason, evidence and reliability. 

PERCEPTION

In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of talking in, picking, organizing and understanding sensory information. Not only that philosophy of perception is concerned with the nature of perceptual experience and the status of perceptual data, in particular how they relate to beliefs about, or knowledge of, the world. Any explicit account of perception requires a commitment to one of a variety of ontological or metaphysical views.

Elements of Perception.

There are four elements in perception. To understand perception we must consider to both below kinds of account and how these elements are to be conceived in relation to one another. They are 

• The perceive, me
• The object, the field
• The sensory experience, my visual 
• experience of colours and shapes
• The relation between the object and the 
• subject.

How to learn 

This is much important sector that must be discussed under learning with harmony with the fundamental understanding of the basic environment needed for a better, efficient learning. As mentioned in the section 01, there are two major learning systems prominent in world as well especially in Sri Lanka. That is teacher based learning and self-learning.Even though both of those systems have good and bad effects on learning, my opinion is that, it is good to learn with guidance but, the learner should not be restrained only in the frame of instructor’s learning and teaching block. A wise learner must always grab and explore new sources of information and must engage in recalling and practicing on theories and concepts learnt. Transferring information and knowledge is a most successful and important method of empowering learning. According to my point of view, the matter of "Very few people are taught how to learn" has created much problems in modern as well early educational systems in our country. If children were taught from primary classes on "how to learn" in deep concern, people would have been inspired to explore wisdom on their own with much interest.Anyone can make learning a simple but interesting process by changing the attitudes towards the way we engage in the learning process.

CONCLUSION

There is new understanding about how learning happens, and new learning required a considerable amount of practice for become a permanent part of the memory. Lastly I think learning is a most important activity for eveyone. It starts when we are born and it will end when we die. When we are learning new things it will help to improve our brain. Anyone cannot do this for you.