In response to: Share a story about your best learning experience (could be a formal course or something more personal). Why did you enjoy it?

During quarantine, I had the best learning experience I could have asked for. I was laid off and once school was finished, I had a lot of free time on my hands. I have always loved to sing and rap over beats off the internet but had never tried making my own. I made it a goal of mine to start producing the beats for the songs I was making. My learning process was mainly cognitive, as explained in Chapter 11 (Behaviourism, Cognitivism and Constructivism) that the emphasis is placed on the role of practice with corrective feedback. This meant I would watch many youtube videos to understand how other producers made beats, and use the information I learned to make my own beats. This process allowed me to learn and create new beats, while taking inspiration from others. It truly was a fantastic experience for me, as it gave my music a new level of authenticity and honesty. I enjoyed it because it gave me the confidence to show to more people and be more excited about it on my social media. I was an active participant in the learning process and I was reinforced by first of all, taking a greater amount of pride in my work, but also by my friends praising me and sharing my music. I believe my learning experience was cognitive because nobody showed me exactly how to make the beat I made, instead they showed me how to incorporate guitar, drums and keys on Logic Pro X to make their own style of beat. This allowed me to understand how a beat was made to begin with, and then I could try a number of different chords and drum patterns to make one that sounded good. In this way, “the similarity between activities [allowed] for the unfamiliar to be put into a familiar context.”