I have read my classmates’ essays with regards to an emergent theory of learning. I enjoyed seeing how they processed the first two modules and come up with their own ideas on learning and intelligence. I want to mention some of the works I admired from Barangay Adhikain, my thoughts on them, and a final reflection about the overall activity.
“Immersive Intelligence”
Sir Robert Carpio’s insights (2019) are as follows:
- Immersing ourselves in the information we absorb in the classroom increases our capacity to learn
- Immersing oneself involves seeing past definitions, equations, formulas, etc.
- This kind of intelligence helps individuals discover more about themselves, and become spiritual and compassionate
In my opinion, immersion does benefit two parties: the person immersing, and the community which is being approached.
As for the trainees or students immersing, they develop a better sense of consciousness about a certain work community. This can be a STEM student familiarizing herself in a computer hardware manufacturing company or an aspiring sociologist going to a kilusan in order to fully learn about workers’ struggle.
This means that immersive intelligence brings academic reality into work life and therefore makes it possible for the individual to attain an “optimum level of learning.”
Of course, immersions also benefit communities in a way that they know how individuals can relate to them and help them in various projects and advocacies.
“Intelligence-Learning Correlation”
Here are the basic tenets of Ms Honeylyn Fernandez’s (2019) proposed theory:
- learning affects intelligence and vice-versa
- learning is not merely a matter of passing a course but developing intelligence and translating it to real-life progress
Just like immersive intelligence, intelligence-learning correlation stresses the importance of application of knowledge since intelligence and learning are tied together. This includes efforts from both teachers and students.
I agree that a person’s innate cognitive potential influences his or her intelligence in the same way that acquired knowledge and understanding affects the use of this potential.
Theories Play a Crucial Role in Education
I also became interested in Ms. Agatha Norilla’s proposition on the theories about intelligence and their role in education. Here are some of her claims:
- A conducive environment for learning can help nurture one’s knowledge
- Theories to learning and education is vital to the society for it helps the teachers measure the performance of the learners that composed different tests of reasoning, acquiring and processing knowledge
It is true that theories can help both the individual (student, teacher, and researcher) and society as a whole because they serve as guides for challenging, extending, or other forms of application in certain phenomena. For instance, they help us understand human behavior and make solutions to problems in the academic setting.
Final Thoughts
Those were just three of the many theories from my groupmates that fascinated me. Mine dealt with the attachment of class struggle on intelligence and intelligence testing. I realized how diverse and unique our ideas were. But one thing we all agreed on is that these theories were made out of our interests or the topics that appeal to us the most. These different postulations are also united about the significance of education among people.
Sources:
Carpio, R. (2019). My Emergent Theory of Intelligence. Retrieved from https://myportal.upou.edu.ph/pluginfile.php/258910/mod_forum/attachment/1283211/Carpio%20Robert%20Asst1.pdf.
Fernandez, H. (2019). Assignment 1: My Emergent Theory of Intelligence. Retrieved from https://myportal.upou.edu.ph/pluginfile.php/258910/mod_forum/attachment/1280134/Fernandez%20Honeylyn%20Asst1.pdf
Norilla, A. (2019). On the Relevance of Intelligence Theory to Learning/Education. Retrieved from https://myportal.upou.edu.ph/pluginfile.php/258910/mod_forum/attachment/1277894/Norilla%20Agatha%20Rica%20Asst1.pdf
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