HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving is going well. This will be one of my last posts for this semester. In my last Adult Learning class my partner and I got to facilitate a lesson on the attribute Motivation. This was Knowles' last attribute and one of my personal favorites. I happy to say that I only have two more projects left and then I'm finished. Next week both of my classes will be meeting for some food and drinks. This past Sunday my friends and I went to an awesome concert at the Starland Ballroom. It was an amazing show! My band has opened up for major acts at this location multiple times. Seeing these bands play made me miss the felling iof playing on that big of a stage to that many people. Hopefully we'll get a chance to do it again!

Almost Done!

This semester is winding down, and while I have had a lot of fun, I can't wait to start a new. This Wednesday, we had our last class for INTC 5001. During this class I got to present my tool time on Photo Peach. I did really enjoy this tool, but there was a lot of things I could see that could have been fixed. During my Adult Learning class we went over the 5th attribute which was Orientation. It is very interesting to see how all of these attributes begin to intertwine with one another. All of these attributes are truly important when looking at how we learn as adults.  I have one more Adult Learning class left in which my partner and I get to facilitate our discussion on the andragogical attribute, Motivation. This is a particularly important one for me and has been throughout my life.

A Slow Week

This week was kind of a slow week for me. I didn't really get much of anything done. I only have a little bit of work left to do for both of my classes which I will hopefully finish by next week. I've been more interested in searching different Universities that I will apply to next year. That has honestly been my motivation for this current week. I'm really excited to start this journey, but I just wish it was here already! In other news I will be attending the Atlantic City Tattoo Expo tonight at the Tropicana Casino! Most people who know me, know that I love tattoos in addition to having plenty of them.....but I can never have enough!

Experience and Respect

In this past weeks facilitation on the attribute Experience in Adult Learning, I began to see how each attributes are beginning to intertwine. Experience is key in learning, but with this attribute doesn't include only positive aspects. There are plenty of negative aspects that become of our experiences. Though this may be the case, without negative experiences, we as individuals could not continue to grow. Both positive and negative experiences bring about an outlook that shapes who we are and who we will become. With experience also comes the biased view that we may have. This bias is often hard to break without the will to change. I have been a master in Tae Kwon Do since I was seventeen years old. Often times when teaching classes that include adults who are twenty or thirty years older than I, comes a sort of resistance. It is often that older adults don't really want to learn from someone much younger than them. Though I've been doing Tae Kwon Do for twenty years, I still have much more to learn; I will never stop learning. Many of the adults may not understand that I've been state champion as well as national champion and junior Olympic champion (which is just a step done from the Olympics and includes the best of the best from around the world) multiple times throughout my life. Older adults may have a bias that believes that they can't learn from someone younger than themselves. For me, this is a challenge that I never back down from and I always come out the better person for having changed someones mindset. This website provides a great look into how our environment shapes our experience and thus our perception. The last bit of this blog entry is going to be on respect. In both my Adult Learning and Instructional Technology in the 21st Century classes are full of respect. Each and every person in both of my classes are respectful to each other. I have never experienced this in any of my undergraduate classes. Everyone is so happy to tell each other great job and to always help out. It's refreshing to see that people like this still exist in this world and I'm truly happy to be a part of this family.