Learning to learn to learn.....

Remember when we constructed our online courses? How about when we incorporated multimedia files in education? What about blogging? The bottom line is those are all things we learned about and then executed. This week's chapter posed an interesting question, "what does it mean to learn to learn." I would attribute the "learn to learn" concept to a couple of actions, comprehend and execute. I don't think learning can transpire without action. If it's a two step process, wouldn't we call it "learning to learn to learn?"

The reading this week discussed a necessity for learning, autonomy. There are three types of autonomy: intellectual, emotional, and moral. Naturally, I paired moral autonomy with ethics. Although ethics were never mentioned directly with moral autonomy, the characteristics are clearly identifiable. Decision makers with a high sense of moral autonomy must exercise personal and professional ethics when developing young minds.

Autonomy in the student-teacher relationship is a give and take. Instructors take the autonomy given to them and share with their students. Without autonomy, students are less likely to develop their social and intellectual abilities.

Autonomy at SCC is even more powerful. If you lack autonomy, it's going to be very challenging to make a dramatic difference. In Continuing Education, a support staff member (my title) has no freedom to develop program curriculum without autonomy. If you cannot develop curriculum, it's pretty difficult to develop students. Let me refer to my "learning to learn to learn" equation. If I have never developed curriculum, don't I have to "learn" how to do it first? Unless I can prove I have relevant experience in the development process, does that discredit any curriculum I have assisted to development?

The bottom line is this, if someone wants to make a difference, they must have a proven track record, skilled know how, and level of authority to do any type of development.

I promise I will let go of these Yogi Berra blogs next week. I read two many blogs that think they have to incorporate as many Journalistic rules as possible. I guess it's all running together.