Learning and Action

After reading Chapters 5 and 6, I started to think about myself and how I learn information the best. I am really good at learning things like sports, games, video games, crafts, songs, math, and so on. I am not very good at learning things like history, science, etc. Everything that I am good at learning is something that you actually do or use. Take sports for instance, I am great at sports. When somebody teaches me a sport, they are not teaching me on paper. They are teaching me outside on the field or court. I am actually watching and doing what is being taught to me. Then, I will use what is being taught to me over and over. It is not something I have to hurry and memorize just to never use it again.
I think that we learn better if we actually use what we are learning. When you play video games, you have to learn how to play and what buttons to press. Then, you will keep using that over and over. Thing that are fun and hands on people tend to learn better because they have to learn it if they want to participate. If the thing that we are trying to learn is something that does not relate to our lives on a regular basis then we tend to just forget about it.
In Chapter 6, Gee talks about the different cultural models. One of the cultural models is about learning. He talks about how learning is driven by goals or particular objectives. For example, personally, I have no interest in history. So a goal of mine would not be to know a lot about history. Therefore, I do not really learn it because I am not interested in it. I am interested in things that I will actually relate to my everyday life.