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So here we are again. Learning. Together. I signed up, saw the tweets, read some posts, received the email. I didn’t think that I’d be able to make it, but here I am, wondering once again, what does it all mean. So it begins, once again, with a curious question without a mark, a short phrase. “Learning Subjectives”. Here then are my thoughts, for what they are worth.
To me learning subjectives is:
- Where learning is the focus
- Sometimes ignored, often stifled
- Making, adapting and remixing
- Grown in many ways: cuttings, seeds, roots
- Open to choice, but we must always choose
- Influenced and encouraged by space
- Full of compromise and negotiation
- Not easily, if ever, assessed
- Personally connected
So there we have it, my first post. Feels incomplete, but maybe it always is. Anyway, good to be back. Did we ever leave?
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Thanks for this post, and for outlining your view of learning subjectives so clearly. I really like that one in the middle, about being open to choose, but also being forced to choose – I guess wrapped up in this is having confidence in choices, and accepting that while they’re good enough for now, they might, in time be superseded by different ones. I work with first year undergraduate students, and I wish they all had the confidence to accept that what they’ve done to be academically successful now is ok, but that it might need looking at again; and that the things they find to replace them this year, might change again the next.
Thanks Tim for the reply. I guess it is a part of that cycle of unlearning, where sometimes we have to admit that what we were doing was wrong or might not work anymore. I must admit, the idea of forced choice stems in part from the discussion in #Rhizo14 around ‘enforced independence’ http://readwriterespond.com/?p=98 This has been one of those unreconcilable ideas and topics which continues to kind of haunt me.