Okay, okay, I'm doing things backwards! I got kind of excited about playing with blogspot and creating an avatar so I jumped right in to that without taking the time to think about habits of learning and which is easiest and hardest for me. So - what's easiest? Well, I've always believed that I am responsible for my own learning and I am dogged in solving problems so I guess I do view them as challenges. Then things get a little stickier. I was once a very confident learner, but find as I am aging that I question whether I can "get" it. This whole on-line learning thing is scary in its own way!
Hardest for me is using technology to my advantage. Hard to believe huh? I guess if you look at the prior statement you'll understand. I came from business fourteen years ago where I worked with cutting edge software tools. Needless to say, when I arrived in my elementary schools (plural!) I was back in the technology dark ages. Can you say "Commodore 64?" Today I am working with computers that are pretty much what I had back in business all those years ago. It's hard to make them do what I want so I get frustrated and fail to use them to my advantage!
One thing not mentioned in the 7 1/2 habits is the speed factor. Everything is changing SO fast. Do you all remember cataloging class where we hand-typed the cards and reference class where we set up our little recipe box of handwritten best sources? I sometimes feel like a turtle on the Autobahn! But I guess that's where life-long learning comes in. I am excited and happy to learn ... but I am getting a lot of windburn from the cars rushing by.
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Sometimes doing things out of order is the better way to do them. You could look at it as another way of breaking out of the box. We tend to be so fixed on everything having to be done in a certain way that we forget that there is often more than one way to do them. Plus, sometimes it can be fun to create your own order.
I do agree with the speed thing though. It seems like every time I turn around something else is new and improved or else completely new (can we say Kindle?). I get a little scared sometimes but then I realize I don't really have to be able to use all of it, I just need to know that it exists.
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