{"id":2145,"date":"2011-02-14T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:29:39","slug":"what-influences-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/what-influences-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"What Influences Learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/influencers.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2146 alignright\" title=\"influencers\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/influencers-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/influencers-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/influencers.png 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There is change in our role as teacher that&#8217;s reflected in society and technical advances insisting <strong>we must prepare 21st century learners<\/strong>. This is critical in our roles both as teachers and learners across K-12 and all academic areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What influences what we learn?&#8221; and &#8220;How are influencers determined?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These answers are not the same for all learners. Many influencers differentiate us from one another including, but not limited to previous knowledge, goals, skills, capabilities, opportunities, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>A better sense of understanding pertains to all people and is found by askin<strong>g:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>&#8220;How do influencers impact learning?&#8221; <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Actually, they do and they don&#8217;t. In brief, our perception, how we receive, interpret and organize sensory information (&#8220;stimuli&#8221;) directly impacts learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How we Sense<\/strong> (eyes, ears, tongue, nose, skin etc.) <strong>&gt;&gt; What we Sense (Stimulus)<\/strong> &gt;&gt; <strong>Our Perception<\/strong> drives any <strong>Behavior<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We perceive what is sensed through our sensors both outside and inside the body. The result is our perception of what we see, hear, feel, etc and behavior (response), if any, may be positive, negative or indifferent. Consider the following examples&#8230; <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Positive: laughing (behavior) after hearing (sensor) a funny joke (stimulus)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Negative: making a face (behavior) after smelling (sensor) a sour odor (stimulus)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Indifference: no response (perception) after feeling (sensor) a slight change in a room&#8217;s temperature (stimulus)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <strong>&#8220;Why do similar influencers result in different learning?&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nThis goes back to before we were born. About 60% of our dedicated genes drive our early stages of brain development. Genetics are not solely responsible for impacting our brain development. Neuroscientists have shown that the brain is also affected by environmental conditions, even prior to birth. This includes nourishment, care, surroundings and stimulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, our brains are not completely developed at birth  although we do have most of our brain cells. It is the connections  between these cells that continue building our &#8216;network wiring.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>New neural connections are made every time our senses record any incoming messages (stimuli).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From Professional Learning Board\u2019s online continuing education course for teachers: <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Accommodating All Learners<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  There is change in our role as teacher that&#8217;s reflected in society and technical advances insisting we must prepare 21st century learners. This is critical in our roles both as teachers and learners across K-12 and all academic areas.<br \/>\n&#8220;What influences what we learn?&#8221; and &#8220;How are influencers determined?&#8221;<br \/>\nThese answers are not the same [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[177,176,97,114,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24953,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/24953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}