The IB encourages students to learn from their experiences in a lot of ways. According to the definition of experiential learning: “learning through reflection on doing”, we must do first, and then we can learn from it. In CAS, we did many things by ourselves. First, we planned the activities that we were going to do, and then we went through the plan step by step. Lots of CAS activities were new challenges for us. The first time we might not do it perfectly well, but we did learn from it, and we improved every time. For example, my first CAS activity was writing a computer program. My first program had some errors because I made some silly mistakes. I found out the errors and fixed them quickly. My next program therefore avoided those bugs and worked perfectly well, because I have learned from my previous experiences. As you can see, I did get knowledge through reflection on doing things and this is all what CAS is about.

Other things we do in IB can also give us experiential knowledge, such as the oral presentation we do, the essays we write, the posters we make, the science experiments we conduct. In IB history, we are required to do more than one oral presentations. Several are just practices, and several are going to be marked, because the IB encourages us to learn from our experiences. The first time we gave an oral presentation, we were all shy and used poor language. However, we did learn from it, so the next few times, we gave some much better presentations, and this is what IB wants us to do.