Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Learners teach themselves (FOC08)

I think of online facilitators as individuals who value and respect other people enough to allow them to practice independent learning. Although the freedom to learn is inherent, many of us have been conditioned to expect teachers to teach. Carl Rogers had some interesting insights on teaching.
Posted by Nellie Deutsch at 11:46 PM
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4 comments:

Illya said...

Hi Nellie
I love the way you put that! It is so true of expectations, and I've just recently experienced what can happen if the expectations are contrary to the style of input - in my case a learner in my English lesson.

Today at the synchronous meeting we were discussion leaving the 'learning' box and looking at facilitating outside of a learning environment.

Would you change anything in your description of facilitators outside of learning? Have you done facilitating in other contexts?

September 4, 2008 7:32 AM
Nellie Deutsch said...
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September 4, 2008 11:37 AM
Nellie Deutsch said...

Hi Ilya,
Thank you for your comments. Can you clarify what you mean by a non-learning environment? I don't know what you mean by facilitating outside of learning unless you use the term to mean physically helping someone.

September 4, 2008 11:39 AM
Illya said...

Hi Nellie
At the meeting Leigh encouraged us to look at other communities and several examples were mentioned, for example facilitating a project development for a f2f community.

I hope this answers your question. I'm still trying to work it out for myself, but I think in most contexts there is some kind of learning going on. I think Bee describes it aptly here: http://beespace.net/on-learning-and-instructional-design/

September 11, 2008 1:07 PM

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