For this week’s learning challenge, I intend to learn several different recipe for cooking traditional Chinese food. Cooking is always something that I wish to learn, as a matter of fact my father has been a chief his whole life, and he always complained that I didn’t inherit his skills as a cook. So it will be nice if I can surprise him next time I go back home.
The main approach I am going to take is through watching YouTube videos and repetitively practice the recipe on my own. Base on the dual coding theory of memory that was initially proposed by Paivio (1971), that basically states that learning through receiving information from two or more channels could be more effective than through just one channel such as reading a recipe from a cooking book, where we just receive information through the visual channel.(It should be stated that receiving information from too many channels simultaneously could be potentially counterproductive) A video allows me to learn cooking from both visual and auditory channels, and I would be able to connect that two sets of data when I am practicing by myself.
During the practice, I will use take advantage objectivism and behaviourism to maximize my learning efficiency. For a cooking recipe is similar to a math formula, each components like the temperature, time and amount of spices could greatly affect the taste of the food. By strictly following each recipe, I could enhance the effective transmission of knowledge as mentioned in objectivism. Also after finished cooking, the result of my cooking will serve as an immediate “reward or punishment” mechanism as in behaviourism since I will have to eat whatever I cooked up. Based on the taste of my cooking, I would be able to reflect on the steps I took while making it, revise it the next time and further improve my skills.
Reference:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/theories-memory.html https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/section-3-2-behaviourism/
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