7 1/2 Habits of Life Long Learners

The most challenging thing in this course is staying calm and not falling apart, feeling like a failure every time something goes wrong. “A little bit of knowledge is dangerous” and that’s why I’m taking this course. I don’t have enough technology skills to solve my own problems; just enough to be dangerous to myself and others.

The easiest part of this class is having goals in mind. It is exciting to take all of the old, dried up lessons and put them into new technology. My students showed me how to get on YouTube today and we listened to Bob Dylan perform “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall” which in the past has been a choral reading or a cassette in class about the end of time It’s fun to do something new!

The most important thing I need is confidence to move forward and time to make it happen. Sometimes I can work on a project and before I know it, I’ve been at the computer for hours. When this happens, it is easy to fall back into my old ways and old lessons which are quick and already prepared. The second most important thing is trying to keep up with all of the usernames, passwords, and tags I have put on a variety of sites. Oh my!