I taught Lesson 7 this week and I began with the following quote from President Eyring
that came from the talk 'Learning How to Learn', "What you have
learned to date won’t be sufficient for the future. Your hope and mine
is that you have learned how to learn. That gift will turn out to be
priceless ... you only really learn a principle by using it over and
over again.” and I said that President Eyring's words referred
to the concept of lifelong learning that was taught for Lesson 3. I then
said that a big part of learning is how to gather useful information
and also explained that there are many sources of information, but all
sources have a different degree of reliability and usefulness in our
quest for knowledge.
From
there, I explained that information helps us know who we are and what
we can do using the example that the Savior knew who He was and because
of that clarity, He was able to have a focused and purposeful life. I
said that by recognizing our strengths and identities, we could build
upon them and make better choices that will help us to become better
people. After reading a quote from President Uchtdorf about how we don't
have to blindly accept everything we hear, I then said that we need to
make sure any information we seek needs to be from a credible source and
that the Spirit can help us to discern credible from not credible
knowledge.
After saying that
information literacy means how to locate, evaluate, and determine the
reliability of academic sources, I then briefly touched upon President
Uchtdorf's talk on truth and said that all can know the truth that is
the gospel of Jesus Christ and to use to help us deal with information
that may contradict with what we know to be true. I also touched upon
the methods that one can use to search and possibly find information
that they may need.
I then briefly touched
upon on the things that one would look at when evaluating information to
see whether or not it is reliable. I also talked about the types of
sources that should be used in a search for information and what types
of sources should be avoided.
Once we have a solid basis of knowledge on something that is gathered from a credible source, we need to share what we know so we may retain it and possibly learn other things that we may not have known before. The process of sharing is called teaching. There are those who seek the knowledge, but have difficulties gathering and/or successfully retaining the information. Teaching another how to not only the knowledge can be accessed, but also how to successfully retain it is called tutoring. Being able to teach/tutor is a gift from God.
In explaining gifts from God, I touched upon Doctrine and Covenants 46:10-12, which reads, "And
again, verily I say unto you, I would that ye should always remember,
and always retain in your minds what those gifts are, that are given
unto the church. For all have not every gift given unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every man is given a gift by the Spirit of God. To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby."
After briefly touching upon tutoring and how to access academic resources and supports, I concluded my teaching by stating that it is not enough to watch others, we need to learn and do productive things with our lives in order to learn. I said that the Savior invites us to follow Him and how can we do that if we are just sitting there watching and doing absolutely nothing?
The Savior died so that we could allow ourselves to leave our sins
behind and be better than an unlearned, fallen people. I added that the
Spirit of God helps us to be an instrument in God's hands not only to
help ourselves, but to also help others, but we need to be living a life
that makes us worthy to have the Spirit so it CAN help us do well.
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