Experiential learning is the most powerful and natural form of learning. You will gain reflection on experience. For example, age one baby learn many new skills through painful experiential learning, they tried to walk and fail, and when they tried to stand up again, the young baby finally learns how to walk through a repeated way to doing. The benefit of experiential learning is people will learn more quickly and retain more information when they are doing something. As Sir Richard Branson says, “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by fall over.”(Richard Branson 26 October 2014)
A teacher can create a real-world question in the form of experiential learning since students may lose interest in lectures if it does not help them solve real-life problems. Experience learning requires concepts and applying them to real-life situations. As students interact with the information, it becomes relevant to them. Students may gain a different understanding of a problem by approaching it in a different way or interpreting it in a different way. The experiential classroom simulates “real” society. Students can also express their creativity through experiential learning.
Real-world problems usually have one solution. Nevertheless, when the student solves the problem with their own method of thinking, they are more likely to learn. During the course of learning to code, the teacher provides us with many exercises to practice coding; however, you can apply different methods to solve the problem after you have finished solving it with your own code, in order to simplify your code and make it more readable and understandable. In this manner of teaching, I am able to understand how to find an effective way to resolve a problem even if you already have a solution.
Simon Fraser University defines experiential learning as: ““the strategic, active engagement of students in opportunities to learn through doing, and reflection on those activities, which empowers them to apply their theoretical knowledge to practical endeavours in a multitude of settings inside and outside of the classroom.” In addition to providing students with the opportunity to reflect on the outcome, experiential learning exposes students to a wider range of their actions and how they affect the issue. Additionally, the experiences students gain from their mistakes will be valuable in the future. During hands-on tasks, students will discover what approaches work and which don’t. Methods that do not work are discarded, but the actual act of trying something and then abandoning it – normally regarded as a mistake – becomes an invaluable part of the learning process. Students learn not to fear mistakes, but to value them.
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Why is experiential learning important?
https://www.easchooltours.com/blog/experiential-learning-learn-through-experience
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3.6 Experiential learning: learning by doing (2) – Teaching in a Digital Age (opentextbc.ca)
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