Just had an epiphany. I was beginning to resent learning with the PD that I was doing as a school, mainly around writing.
As part of my facilitation inquiry it has just occurred to me I was becoming that child whose learning styles where not cater for and that was causing resentment.
Firstly since starting work as a Blended e-Learning facilitator I have rediscovered that I learn best by watching videos or listening to podcasts. This is quite a change from when I was going through varsity and college. I can still assimilate knowledge reading but it takes me three or four readings to get the gist of the info compared to once or twice on video.
As a teacher I was finding it had to get back to a reading 3 or 4 times. Most of our PD where readings!
Secondly the writing PD was all paper based and had no digital component, as a class of one to one laptops I felt very alone and doing things wrong.
I love being surrounded by people who think similar to me and allow for different learning styles.
As a facilitator I am going to make sure I provide my information as written (paper), written (electronic) and visual and audio. Ensuring that all electronic has easy links to follow.
The journey continues...... I was going to use a graphic but I just needed to blurt out my ideas!!!!
Friday, August 30, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Adults compared to Children as Learners
Adults verse Children Learners
How does this relate to me?
http://ed.fnal.gov/lincon/staff_adult.shtml
The beginning
This will be a blog of my journey as a BeL Facilitator working through Teaching as an Inquiry
My big question is
“How do I facilitate with adults after teaching with kids”
What is the same / different?
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