User:Vtaylor/Learning 101

Learning to learn - lifelong learning, new ideas, practice and skills

Learn something new every day.

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out? ... And will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)…With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street…You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” - Dr. Seuss

Learning to learn

One of the side themes in this course is learning about learning. Computers and technology have opened up so many learning opportunities for people everywhere. But most of us have not been formally taught how to learn. There is a big emphasis on lifelong learning and taking control of our own learning. So learning about learning and practicing some new learning skills Are essential..

• what we know about learning
• informal learning * infants and toddlers * pre-school * sports * hobbies * organizations,programs with skills, badges - Boy Scouts
• school, formal education * sit up and listen* Will it be on the test? * Standardized tests * Testing as practice
• They never taught this in school

Technology in teaching

• Course management, administration and assessment
• distance learning, hybrid / online courses * MOOCs * mobile, app
• What do I have to do to get an A? * Memorization is back
• business training - just in time, job aids

Technology supported learning

• Problems and projects
• Inquiry, questions
• Design learning
• differentiated instruction

Personal learning environment /network

• Self-directed * personalized,
• guided / coaching
• personal responsibility
• curriculum
• prior knowledge

Learning styles

Learning styles have fallen out of fashion. There was a time when everyone thought that it was neccessary to accommodate and provide different forms of instruction to each of the styles - Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic. While everyone seems to have some preferences, actual learning is not limited one anyone presentation. This is great news. Focus is now placed on providing learning opportunities that a appropriate to the content and other factors.

Learning skills

• time management * formulating great questions * planning * research

Learning literacies

• Find * Use * Protect * Share * Solve * Make

• 18 Chances You Will Not Regret Taking In Life: http://www.marcandangel.com/2014/04/02/18-chances-you-will-not-regret-taking-in-life/

• http://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf This PDF is a list of crieteria that that an information source should meet to make sure that it is a good source. It includes things like how current the material is, how it is presented and how it is sourced. The list is created by CSU Chico, making it likely for it to be a good set of rules and guidelines

• 10 Lists To Keep If You Want To Be Successful - lthis article has important keys that can help someone be successful. Helps individuals keep track of someone who wants to be successful.

technical literacies

• digital clock on microwave
• web literacies

Life skills

• financial, money management, banking, investing, saving, assets, loans, mortgages
• government, civics
• collaboration, leadership

Getting started

What do I have to do to be prepared for lifelong learning in a technology enabled world?

Everyone talks about the importance of lifelong learning and how technology is a driving force. Education reform is long overdue. Students everywhere but here are getting a better enducation. Everyone needs twentieth century skills to participate in the global ecomony. But what are these skills and how to get them?

There is a lot of interestin teaching and learning in general. Some of the research finding are being implemented with new STEM initiatives, problem based learning and collaboration. These skills are essential to personal success. However, there isn't much direct instruction or practice in learning and practicing these skills.

Some of the basics skills are stilll the same. Get organized. Plan ahead. Play nicely with others. Build relationships through respect and cooperation.

Technologies are constantly changing in support of these. But sometimes, a good think, an honest coversation and a piece of paper are the best tools for the job.

In general, learningis about being open to new ideas, different ways to do things, adding to prior knowledge and finding personal satisfaction with accomplishments and positive strategies for solving problems and making the world a better place.

• basic life skills learning to learn, knowing what we know, realizing there are things we don't know that we don't know
• what we know about learning
• some strategies forproblem-solving
• learn something new every day
• what do you want to be when your grow up
• live, love, legacy
• passions, hobbies and the pursuit of happiness
• cooperation and collaboration - working with others
• financial reality
• rules, regulations and government
• time, past, present and future