The discussion this week was a little bit different. For the first half of the week, we responded to five questions. Some of these questions didn’t seem to have anything to do with our class, for example: What do you know more about than Joni and Dave ? It was enjoyable to read through the answers and learn more about my classmates. At the beginning of the semester I was overwhelmed with everyone’s names, I couldn’t keep anyone straight. I guess when you are in a class you have a visual and sounds to help you know who is who. Anyway, everyone’s personalities are coming out in the discussions now and it isn’t as difficult for me to follow conversations.
After we answered these questions we went back to our group to discuss what we learned about informal learning from questions. My most important contribution came in my first post, which was also the group’s first post. In it I stated:
“At the very base, these are things we find interesting and important. Most of the time we educate ourselves in these areas and we have quite a few similarities, so there is probably and audience out there looking for self-paced course.”
I think this was a good start to our discussion because it was a very broad overview and gave everyone a place to leave from. Other ideas that were discussed include: the necessity for informal learning to be relaxed, intriguing, self-directed and that the internet is a perfect place for this type of thing. I mean, if we really think about it, how many arguments are solved everyday, by people searching for the answer to a question online? I’m sure quite I few. Which just shows the power of informal learning.
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