meaningful learning

          in my opinion, meaningful learning is about making any lessons worthy and valuable so that it can lead students, especially, toward better long-term retention rather than rote learning. however, students nowadays tend to memorize the knowledge they get instead of trying to understand the literally meaning of that particular fact or sentences. besides that, the purpose of learning the knowledge is not much clear understood due to this memorizing stuff. so, in order to make the learning meaningful, the teacher who is the most important person in educating the students, should play their roles to help students learn meaningfully. one of them is the teacher should consider and appeal to students' interests. once the students find the lesson is parallel to their interests and fun to learn, they will then try and try to be prepared well to ensure they understand the lesson. 

Whenever a new topic or concept is introduced, the teacher should attempt to anchor it in students' existing knowledge and background so that it becomes associated with something they already know. Other than that, the teacher must avoid the pitfalls of rote learning which are the things that most contribute to meaningless learning. the most frightened thing is once the students get bored in memorizing the facts that they must know, it will be worthless then to push them back to understand the facts. therefore, the teacher must take this thing very seriously so that it won't be late to make the students learn meaningfully, perhaps :)