A learner today is
like a luxury car in an extra limited edition. Cars with advanced auto function
run faster, provide bigger and more comfortable space for people and also avoid
accidents with those detective sensors, so with these advanced functions, this
car could be a more popular car among the other ones; same like learners today,
the ones with the ability of keep themselves to stay current in the field could
always learn more, learn faster and learn more broadly, so they can always be
on top of their field.
After reading
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, I really agree what
Driscoll(2000) defines learning as “ a persisting change in human performance
or performance potential…[which] much come about as a result of the learner’s
experience and interaction with the world”. This actually reminds me of the
experience I had when I was an interpreter. As an interpreter, what I do is not
only translate one language to another, what’s more, it’s more like an exchange
of information, and I need to keep myself updated daily by searching information
and knowledge online or listen to news in order to do so. Thus, by doing my own
researches online and interact with my advisor and colleagues I gained information
for the work that was coming. And not only for my interpreting career, but also
when I was learning Spanish. I started to learn Spanish two years ago, and I
decided to learn it by myself instead of join a Spanish program since I couldn’t
afford it. So what I did was downloaded an app on my phone, and joined a
Spanish learning forum online. To my surprises, there are plenty of Spanish learning
sources in that forum and most of them are easy to follow and easy-understanding
steps for beginners, which by applying them and interacting with the users also
sign for it, I learned a new language and got to know more things than just
language itself.
What I learned the
most from the above two experiences was not the skill or language themselves,
instead, it’s always connect to the others, or even, to the outside world to
keep myself updated. So like The Network is the Learning video states “The way
we are connect to other individuals is largely responsible for our ability to
continue to stay current in the field”.
¡Muy bien! Me gusta la idea que somos muy importante en el intercambio del información y las experiencias de nuestros estudiantes. Las conexiones son esencial en educación hoy.
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