Since I have been a student in school since kindergarten I have engaged, learned, and watched many different types of learning. While I think learning can be subjective for each individual, I am going to touch on inquiry-based learning and how I think it is a positive and strong way to learn. One of the best features of inquiry-based learning is that it is student-centered. This way students can pull from past experiences they can use the three inter-related memory-forming processes and can result in stronger plasticity for the learners. Although this learning form fosters exploration rather than memorization, it doesnā€™t mean that the learners canā€™t use memory from past experiences to support their outcomes of the education (ex., using past experience to solve an issue or scenario).

During inquiry-based learning, there is an educator or teacher who I think is a helpful resource/tool when learning. Their role can be to deliver information in a way where the information is provided in steps or chunks rather than as a whole. They can also encourage learners to relate their own lives to the concepts and create relevant topics. Personally, being able to relate my own experiences to concepts has made my understanding deepen and allows me to apply the concepts in real life.

This learning approach aligns with our topic of ā€œThe Addictive Nature of Social Mediaā€ as we allow learners to begin their own planning and strategies. We also encourage the learner to create their own adaptive responses to scenarios which they can decide to form from their own lives or past experiences with the topic. This topic is also relevant to the directed audience and is easy to connect with as social media has become a large part of our everyday lives. As learners explore this topic they can discover new things about themselves aswell as this topic that they may not have been aware of before.Ā