Today is my first post. The assignment is to read/watch/listen to a tutorial on 7 1/2 Habits of Life Long Learners. Here's a link if you can't find it; http://www.slideshare.net/LoriReed/7-12-habits-of-lifelong-learners.
The easiest habit for me is accepting responsibility for my own learning. I was a fairly good law student, top 15% isn't too bad if I do say so myself, but I always declined joining study groups. Study groups, the holy grail of law school studying, were best practiced while doing nothing related to law school in my opinion. I concentrate most when I can study, read, comprehend at my own pace. I hand wrote all my notes back then and we are talking about 100 page outlines because that's how I learn things best. Now, as a public defender, I still hand write my notes and research.
The most difficult for me is embracing technology to enhance my own learning. I marvel at the cool stuff but I'm literally scared, no exaggeration, of that same new stuff. I don't know the tools and I don't know how to make the tools work for me. I think this is the class for me! Seriously, I'm super excited to take this class.
My future students will have been born into a world were technology is as natural as breathing and I must find a way to embrace that.
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