Change (ELD 5313)

I believe preparing learners to have curiosity must established early in the year. As the learning facilitator, I try to make myself vulnerable and model to my students that it is okay to question, struggle, and discover. In my courses we consistently relate past topics to our prior knowledge to build connections. The deepest learning takes place when the learners take ownership and when they allow themselves to be okay with struggling. Again, as the facilitator, I highlight questions and emphasize their value when they are asked.

I believe that I can be the someone to inspire digital learning by again modeling the power it can have. Why should my learners be restricted to learning from me when they are an infinite number of resources available that may align more with their learning styles, but also more with their interests. Digital learning can provide students with lesson tailored to them and also allow them to view numerous resources that may be more powerful than an unrealistic one-size-fits-all lesson that I create for 30 students.

I think that connecting formal learning to informal learning is natural transition that is often overlooked. When discovering, investigating, and interacting with new content, we are informally learning different rules, procedures, and properties attached to the material. The formal learning foundation is then built, but may just put a name to a face for a skill that can be learned already.