Everything I Learned and More
Carmelo Bono
Dr. L. Desmoulins
March 28, 2013
Everything I Learned and More
To me, the most important things, as I move through learning is the how and the why. As a concurrent education program student, I need, and do ask myself, the following two questions. The first, how is this education actually benefiting me? The second, what is it that makes this experience in the Lakehead Education program an asset to my desired career? I ask myself the reason why, in the sense of my desire and my capability. I ask these things of myself because they are important things for me to recognize about myself and they raise flags every once in awhile. These questions make me recognize I need a reality check. They help me recognize that I am doing this because this is my desired career and this is something I am passionate about. There has been a couple incidents through my studies that left me wondering “why am I going through these five years of academic study?”. Each time, it results with me nodding, smiling and thinking, this is what I need to do to be the change in the world, to be where I want to be, come the future. The path to greatness is paved with the blood, sweat and tears of those before us, tread lightly in the path they laid for us and find yourself in the general area to which you want to be, but leave room for a sidestep of improvement on that path. Sometimes thinking about these things raises flags because, just when I think I know everything I think I pretty well need to know, a curve ball is chucked at me from my peripherals and I learn another interesting fact or skill that will be fundamental as I begin teaching.
The significance of application, mastery, interaction, repetition, and practise is that they all are all reminders that with hard work, and an open mind, achievements can be made. Even though perfection is a flawed concept, there is nevertheless a point that we contend is the best there is at the time. This acceptance of a given situation is in form, perfection. Practise may not perfect, but it does help prove the will of beings and the ability to work hard towards a goal. With that hard work comes success, it may not always be to the degree of success desired, but nonetheless, successful in an aspect. Mastery is what learners strive for when a goal is envisioned, but its significance is merely a checkpoint in progression or recognition of the highest order in ability. Application is the most significant of all these things. The way appllication of knowledge is made and what is known is truly the test of the self, and one's skills. The way in which one applies what learnings to life and career. So, this new skill is not so much about the mastery, but about being able to learn a new skill and be at a physical and mental strength to complete the task to an acceptable/desired degree.
In terms of learning, the most difficult part about it, I feel is the retention of technical knowledge to the highest degree. Some technical knowledge, I find easy to retain because of the basic application or etymology qualities it holds, but there is some knowledge that is so detailed and particular in its relativeity that I end up better off describing the idea or concept rather than remember the name. I think this is because the basic concepts is in which I get the opportunity to appreciate the application of these things. The more detailed and trivial learning tasks are, in some cases make the concept far too specific to apply to life at the time of learning. The most difficult part of my new skill learning though I think would be making the time to practise, time management.
My learning pattern is very much something that I need to follow. Listen, see and try, these are the steps I follow while trying to learn. I will listen to instructions, then watch the instructions if able, otherwise I will just attempt it myself and use trial and error until I feel comfortable with the task. But learning truly clicks when I feel I have made progress, as it does with most people. In terms of my new skill, I observed videos of myself to determine and realize the progress I was making.
I have always used K.V.A. in all situations (unless one of them were unavailable); K.V.A. is something I learned about at a young age in elementary school and have always been fully aware about, however I did not always apply myself the way I should have at the time. I feel that over the years I am learning more of the particulars to the K.V.A. and how it applies to my learning on a personal level. K.V.A. was used in my new skill when I watched Youtube videos and read manual instructions on how to do tricks as well as balance techniques, but then I needed to physically try them out for myself.
I did require instruction from videos and manuals on the internet. I also gave instruction while teaching my roommate how to play various hacky sack games and do a couple different tricks while producing videos. I had to demonstrate and verbally explain the way games are carried out and the way tricks were done. It was a noteworthy task to teach it to another individual, but would have been a lot harder trying to teach it to someone who didn't see the value in participating in physical activity in this particular way.
My conception of teaching is changing in terms of how I recognize the student. The student is actually the teacher in my eyes because as teachers work with different people, they need to adjust and use precedents to help figure out the best way to instruct or motivate an individual who has been instructed by other individuals. Thinking of oneslf in a manner of teaching someone a new skill or ability, there is an "Aha" moment that is shared when the student consolidates their own learning by explaining it in their own words to the teacher. This requires learning of their understanding, and how they assess it compared to their teacher's. This satisfaction of task learning is a mutual feeling which can make a teacher feel like a student because the satisfaction requires mutual understanding, the task was learned, the student learned a new way to describe it to an individual as which they just learned the task.
S.M.A.R.T. Goals for New Skill (Hacky Sack)
Specifically I set my sights on learning how to hold up a hacky sack for 15 hits, I have been successful. I will be performing my task to this class in hopes that I am mastered enough in my skill to perform 15 hits within three sessions.
Measuring my task learning was done through counting hits in a single session over the weeks that I have been working on my skill. So, in the first week, I could keep it up three times, I was hoping by week 3 I would be at about 10 hits per session.
Attainable skills are attained through pushing and patience. I felt I was capable at pushing through the screw ups and difficult parts of maintaining hits in a single session fairly well. I worked on this task for about an hour each night for 3 weeks. I got better and busier so I began to do an hour every two nights, I still recognized an increase in skill and I think that if I stick with it I would be able to go a lot further with hacky sack.
Realistically I needed to know that this would be a task which would require physical well being and mental stability. It is a task that would push frustration and test patience to the fullest extent.
Time was not an issue in this matter because I learned the skill so quickly. I was amazed at how fast I was able to learn it. I was worried at first because I thought it would be a lot harder to learn this skill based on physical attributes associated with this skill. Physical attributions are hand and eye coordination, balance, speed, and flexibility. After conquering these physical restrictions and bending some of the attributions which are required in the skill to fit my attributes, I ran into the issue of time concerning learning the skill because hacky sack was my back up skill. I was originally going to play guitar in class which was going well however I knew I was not making the progress needed to master the skill in my mind. So on the side of hacky sack, I was learning guitar as well, and eventually dropped guitar and switched to hacky sack.
IN CLASS Presentation
-Hacky sack was invented in nearly every ancient civilization; however the modern sport as we know it today in North America was invented in 1972 by John Stalberger and mike marshall in Oregon city
· Ted Martin
· Total kicks: 69,812
· Total time: 7 hrs. 38 min. 22 sec.
· Date of record: November 15, 1995
· Official event: Classic Footbag 1995 (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Four games:
1. assassin; compliments editionà when you walk the circle, you need to go around and say something nice about each person in the circle; the hack must be passed once before assassinating
2. count; one person starts with one, next two, the next three, and so on; does not have to be consecutive hits between people
3. PIG; must copy what the person in the middle does, sack cant hit floor or hack gets passed on to next person
4. Freestyle
Music playingàmodestep? franz Ferdinand?
Rules:
-If hack hits ground the count, or round is dead
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