This reminds me of who is the owner of their learning. Scholars learn from watching others just like a baby learns to talk, crawl, walk, etc. from watching others. They are the owner of their learning. They watch someone else and practice this on their own until they achieve their goal.

To me, this is learning. Scholars gain more from their peers than they do from me. When they guide their learning and I sit back as an observer and helper than a facilitator, their learning develops exponentially than when I try to facilitate the learning.

Although it states scholars have a hard time learning a foreign language in schools and I am by no means a foreign language teacher, I learned in another class about translanguaging which is allowing ELL scholars to use their langauge within the classroom. For example, before we read a text, I ask scholars about words they might expect to find in the text based on the title and pictures. I invite ELL scholars to provide words from their language they might see in the text if it was in their home language. This provide open conversation about morphology and gives ELLs a synonym in English and teaches native English speakers words in other languages.

When I first started teaching, computers were far and few between within the school buildings. I think I had 3 big desktops in my classroom for scholars to share. Technology was very "alien" in this sense. However, I have seen a shift in technology where I once had 3 desktops I now have 25 Chromebooks. The push for integrating technology into classrooms and prepare scholars for their future endeavors through technology has greatly increased. This factor of learning has pushed literacy from paper/pencil and physical books to what was once "alien" on the computer in forms of reading, writing, speaking/collaborating, listening, etc.

I feel this is how learning looks like for some. They are given an idea or a concept which gets their "gears" turning to analyze it and make sense of the new information. I can see this in my son who is 2 as he manipulates his puzzles to make sense. You can see the hears turning in his head as he sticks his tongue out to understand the complexity of the puzzle. Scholars are the same as new information is given to them. I am one who has to process and marinate on new information before it has become part of me. This allows scholars to take it from short term memory to long term memory.