Knowledge not Equal Unerstanding

After watching what I learned this week, I think the video that touched me the most was the bike experiment. Very few people try to experiment by reversing the direction of the bike grip and the direction of the wheel forward. But it was this experiment that made me fully aware of the plasticity of the brain and the bias in understanding things.

In my learning experience, I think the errors that occurred because of cognitive strategies occurred in my middle school. When we were learning math functions, our teachers did teach us how to use function formulas to solve problems, and there was only one formula, which I thought was very simple. But when I was doing my homework, I found that just applying the one formula I learned in class was not able to solve all the problems, or even only half of them. On the second day, the teacher changed the use of function formulas, i.e., one formula can be changed into different formulas by equivalent substitution, which can be applied to solve different function problems. Although only one formula was learned in class, we can derive more formulas through our own understanding of the function. From this incident I learned that learning is not the same as understanding.

I think current university professors are more of a cognitivist. This is because they tend to review previously learned knowledge when teaching new knowledge, allowing students to collide the old with the new in their thinking and use their previous experience and understanding to learn new knowledge. And they analyze difficulties for students when they encounter learning difficulties, provide different strategies to solve problems, and ultimately solve them.