Session 1

Name: Humayun Ansari

Education: Graduated from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2014 with a degree in Political Science and Economics.

Professional Experience: After graduation I worked with a civil society organization called Society for International Education and led a project in Lyari to train students in photo journalism. Then, I moved on to an A level school where I worked in various departments giving me a holistic experience of working in a school.

Interests: I like to work with older students who are in college and about to start their university education. I feel that it is the most crucial time for any student because if they are not guided properly then they will be unable to make right informed choices for themselves.

Hobbies: I like to bake, cook, read fiction novels at times and spend time with my cat.

Today’s Class: During today’s lecture, I learnt there is no one right way to exactly pin point how learning takes place. We discussed about behaviorist and cognitive theorists and their perspectives on how our minds function. I also learnt that our brain is divided into further sections with each section performing its own function to the extent that even certain emotions are depends on certain parts of the brain. Besides this, we also learnt that memory can be either short term or long term depending on how we have interacted with the information. Moreover, brain is something that takes information, processes/stores it and produces output just like computer, but it is not enough to equate the two.