promot 9

9- In many of your prior courses, whether in college, whether in college or in high school, you were working on two fronts at once: learning the material in the course ("what" is covered) even as you were learning the methods of working in that field ("how" things are done). Discuss the competing demands of learning both content and method by using a concrete example from your own experience at UIUC.

What V.S. How

In the learning process possess by human. The concept of learning the material and the concept of how to learn it are very important. These two concepts goes side by side, where one needed to possess both of them in order become a great learner. There is no overshadow of these two learning process on each other. One simply could not learn with the lack of one of the two concepts.

The “What” concept, or the material that one is learning, state the importance of the material the he or she is learning. Without the concept, one wills not the reason why he needs the material. Why the material is necessary for the daily life of his or how he going to apply it. It is like learning history event and does not know why it occurs and why it is important. It is like you just cram all that information into you brain before the test and forget all of it after the test. It is all pointless in the end, since you have no ideas what you just learned.

The “How” concept state how learn the material and uses it to its full capacity. In history class, how one learns the event of history and applies to current society so that the history doesn’t repeats itself again. Another example is how inventor use all the materials learned for school and created something new based on those materials. The “How” concept is the aftermath of the “What” concept, because once people learn why they learn those materials, they will use the How concept to apply those materials to good uses. One can not be a good learn with just skill in one of these two, because these two concepts goes side by side.