Thing 3-Life Long Learning

The hardest and easiest of the Life Long Learning Habits. I've always considered my self a life long learner. I enjoy learning new things to the fullest....learning is an incredible journey that can take you anywhere.

I would have to say that PLAY would be the easiest of the learning habits for me. I love to play whether its playing dress up with my 20 month old daughter, rollerbladding with my husband, bowling on the wii with friend or, using my software to create digital scrapbooking pages. I believe that play is a powerful and important tool in a child's development, as well as an adult. I think when you use play to learn something new it takes the pressure off of being perfect. You are free to try new tools and if you make a mistake, all the better. How else will we learn? For me personally, I feel that when I play around with new technology I am more likely to try new things. If I make a mistake I count it as a learning experience and use it to my advantage. I've learned, I improve, and then I try again.

I would have to say that CREATE MY OWN LEARNING TOOLBOX would be the hardest habit for me. I have learned lots about the internet and can navigate myself on web pretty well. However its the tools that go with it that are hard to keep organized. With all the technology out there it is easy to know a little about a lot of things. I have a tendency to know "enough" to get by but not enough to do well. AND, there are plenty of tools that I have heard about but really not very little. I hope that this class will help me to organize the tools that I have, help me to use the tools I know a little about more effectively and then definately add to my toolbox.