Kolb's Learning Cycle

I googled "Kolb's learning cycle" so I'd know what to write of this post and came up with this:

"Having developed the model over many years prior, David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984. The model gave rise to related terms such as Kolb's experiential learning theory (ELT), and Kolb's learning styles inventory (LSI)."
To be honest, this wasn't very helpful. Then I found this image:

...So the Kolb's Learning Cycle is like this;

• Concrete (feeling or experiencing something)
• Reflective observation (watching something that you've just done)
• Abstract conceptualisation (learning from it)
• Active Experimentation (planning something from what you've just learnt)

Kolb proposes that experiential learning has six main characteristics:

• Learning is best conceived as a process, not in terms of outcomes.
• Learning is a continuous process grounded in experience.
• Learning requires the resolution of conflicts between dialectically opposed modes of adaptation to the world (learning is by its very nature full of tension).
• Learning is a holistic process of adaptation to the world.
• Learning involves transactions between the person and the environment.
• Learning is the process of creating knowledge that is the result of the transaction between social knowledge and personal knowledge.

Reflection

Kolb's learning cycle applies to me because I'm still young, I'm still 
learning a lot, educationally and personally. I make mistakes, look at the mistake I've made, learn from it then do the same thing and hope I am right this time. If not the cycle starts again.

Learning about this cycle was interesting because I've never though of learning as a long process, I thought of it as "you learn something then you apply it" but to learn something, you have to do it slowly or it won't process well, and you'll end up stuck in the Kolb's cycle :(

I don't think anyone will stop using the Kolb's learning cycle as long as they live.