Brass Tack Thinking on Learning/Teaching and on Change March 4, 2011
A couple of links to good posts from Brass Tack Thinking - relevant to the roles of teachers and learners (in non-formal teaching situations) and to living in a changing world - topics that I have a deep interest in. (I'm not sure if these fragments will copy over ok - or if they will bring some odd formatting)
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To Be Or Not To Be…The Smartest? Not only to have an opinion, but to gather reams of information around that opinion. To collect and impart knowledge. To become an expert in something faster than ever before. All of which empowers us to feel – to know – that we have hundreds of smart, important things to contribute at any given time. We even talk about content creation from this aspect: thought leadership. Sharing expertise. Contributing knowledge to the larger base. A notion of teaching. In fact, ask a lot of your friends and online connections and ask them what they love about participating online, and they’ll tell you they love to teach. They love to share knowledge and have it absorbed by others.To know that they’ve “made a difference”. Change is a funny thing. It’s a constant state — and so is our fight against it. We’re wired to fight change. And yet, the more we fight — the more we resist — the more painful change can be. (Stress, after all, comes from wishing things to be other than they are….) Change is a process, one governed by a tradeoff between time and energy. Yes, they work together, but in many ways they act as point / counterpoint: you can get through the process of change quickly if you expend a lot of energy. If you work hard to process the change, accept it, and move forward with things in that altered state. But that’s rarely easy, which is when time takes over… and you have to wait. Which isn’t easy either. |