Example Reflection – Learning Launch

Challenge:

Being a student, I would like to share my own challenges that I faced during my high school  days and what I did differently to overcome it, as part of this assignment.

Until my high school I had very serious troubles towards learning the subjects. I had no choice  other than to memorize everything since I didn’t know how to corelate a topic thereby  increasing the chance of remembering and understanding it better. I was one among the poor  student who doesn’t score high grades in any of the subjects.  Even though the teachers were  ready to help, I was not able to take it up, as it was very hard for me to raise up and ask for  doubt or any kind of help due to the environment I had in my school.

Selection:

Luckily, I had my opportunity when I joined my junior college days, to apply some of the design  principles / tools (realized these as tools and it has names only when I read the “Design Thinking  of Innovation” lecture  ), of which I had very good experience in implementing Learning  Launch for my own growth. Change of school has brought a change not only in my environment  and in my confidence too. On the first of the school my economics teacher told story of one of  the incidents happened in her own life as an example to corelate with the subject and  explained us a topic. This is when I realized and started learning all the subjects corelating with  something that happens in our daily life. Thank God, even without knowing about the tool  Learning Launch, I had used it to improve my learning skills, thereby score very high marks.

Application:

For instance, we had a chapter about demand, supply and price, so when there is demand and  shortage of supply the price of that particular product automatically goes up. Let’s see an  example to understand this topic very easily. The people want more honey and are buying  honey products more often. However, there’s also been a worldwide honey shortage in recent  years, according to The Honey Association. A combination of poor crop yields in Eastern  Europe, Australia, and the US has led to a significant decrease in supply. Today, the cost of raw  honey has risen. It’s not uncommon to pay $10 for one jar of organic honey, if not more – and  that’s a direct result of high demand coupled by a weakened supply.

As we can see here, due to the shortage of organic honey, they couldn’t meet the demand, so  automatically the cost of organic honey has gotten up.

Another example of using this tool, Bank investments, there are several types of investments  available in our country (India) such as Direct equity, Equity mutual funds, Debt mutual funds,  National pension system, Public provident fund, Bank fixed deposit etc. Investing in any kind of  plan, you will be benefited rightly based on the time that’s given under the particular plans. As  the saying goes “Tiny drops make a mighty Ocean” here also investing in small amounts will

surely lead to a big benefit. This frequently said saying helps remember the advantage of  investments briefly.

Insight:

By applying the Learning Launch tool, I was able to learn even the difficult topics pretty easily  and score good in my exams consistently. My progress report has given me the insight on how  efficient this tool is over a period of time when my scores increased from 40% to 90% without  even increasing my stress levels. Wow, from not understanding the basics to expert in teaching  my fellow students.  I started to gain more knowledge and good grades in my higher secondary  school as I aimed and now in to one of the best universities in my state. I am happy and proud  to say that I had more options when I had to choose my college.

Approach:

Finally, I chose to continue the same for my university as well. Though am in my pre final year  of my UG degree, I still use this method to learn all the subjects. I will surely continue to use  this method even after I take up a job and would like to teach this method to my fellow workers  who will join newly, as this method will be very powerful and help them to understand things  in a quicker way which will automatically lead them to do their work better and grow heights.

