Thanks Sandy for your Blog comments and bringing the idea of self-discovery to the Blog community. I fully agree with your statement about the need to see learning as something we gain through engagement rather than thinking in terms of being 'spoon fed'. For me, most training, and all too much formal education is spoon fed in that the teacher decides on what constitutes 'appropriate learning and standards'.
In higher education we are trying to foster independence, critical thinking and ‘self discovery’ which we believe underpins professional practice. You see it all the time in those commensurate professionals that you meet: they are confident in what they know; they are comfortable with not knowing; they find different ways to explore and develop their own knowledge and insights; they can work with complexity and they try to think and act ethically… and more of course.
It might be worth thinking about these and other attributes as you develop your online profile?
I have also posted this to Sandy's Blog comments ... it might be good for you to try posting a comment to someone else's Blog as a practice?
Friday, 24 September 2010
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