After reading Dennis’ review, I agree with him on the difficulty of reconstructing cognition as referred to Motivation Theories and Instructional Design. Dennis mentioned that in the video The Backward Brain Bicycle, the author spends more than ten times as long as the child mastering a particular skill. While this can be one of the reasons for the difficulty in learning the skill, it cannot be generalized.
Moreover, Dennis’s article mentions that a child who learns to ride a bike often gets a greater sense of achievement than an adult, which is why a child can learn a skill that an adult takes more than eight months to master in just two weeks in the video.
Not only that, but the experiments in the video also have the possibility of being easily overlooked. Maybe it is because when adults cannot master a specific skill quickly, children’s faster-learning progress can create a sense of achievement, and improving the sense of achievement increases children’s learning interest and efficiency. Such a learning process becomes a virtuous circle. At the same time, when adults see that children are learning much faster than themselves, they may develop self-doubt and even feel anxious and frustrated in the learning process, thus reducing their ability and interest to learn.
Therefore, I think the level of achievement in learning skills determines the learning efficiency. This theory can be applied to the actual teaching or learning process, such as increasing students’ sense of achievement to improve learning efficiency and interest in learning.
