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I Am An Autodidact, A Self-Directed LEARNer, How Can I LEARN Best For MY Professional Development?
A neglected part in EDUcation is certainly THE ===> #Autodidact #SelfDirected #LEARNer <===! This was since centuries the case AND STILL is the case, a pity as NEW research shows THAT individual learning and teaching individually (Personalized LEARNing) is BETTER to get BEST results!
Let us first have a look on WHAT is NEW in EDUcation below, please. WE are taking a look on ===> EDUcation 4.0 <===..
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Did YOU know that Leaonardo da Vinci is BEST known ===> Autodidact <===?
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Click the above image. please, to access the article.
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Click the above image, please, to access the article.
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Click the above image, please, to access the “pdf” document.
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SO… How can I (LEARNer AND EDUcator) as individual NOW learn on my OWN way? HOW can I as a teaching person encourage self-directed learning and How-To coach my learners for it? WE will use the word ===> LEARNer <=== as well for the students as for the EDUcators…
As those who know me, I love to present sometimes a music video, related to the learning process, here we go…
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[Start text from Wikipedia] Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education is the act of self-directed learning about a subject or subjects in which one has had little to no formal education. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts. Autodidactism is often complemented by learning in classrooms and other social settings. Many autodidacts seek instruction and guidance from experts, friends, teachers, parents, siblings, and community. Inquiry into autodidacticism has implications for learning theory, pedagogy, educational research, educational philosophy and educational psychology. [End text from Wikipedia] |
The word ===> autodidact <=== is MOSTLY known AND used in Europe by German language speakers, English speaking and francophone languages. OTHER countries prefer and use the term ===> Self-Directed LEARNers <===.
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THE path for the ===> LEARNing Process <===:
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Especially for EDUcators, TEACHers, read this book, please, and LET YOU guide for WHAT is needed in the 21st Century:
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- Searching for a specific topic about WHAT YOU want to learn
- Curation about that topic(s)
- My curation about ===> Curation <===
- My curated Topics (MORE than 500k [half a million] visits)
- Lord of Curation
- Create YOUR OWN PKM (Personal [Professional] Knowledge Management)
- Connect with OTHERS on Social Media Twitter and create a PLN (Personal [Professional] LEARNing Network)
- The PLN can get grown by participating (as lurker OR as an active participant) on Twitter Chats
- Observe and analyze YOUR PLN on their behavior and learn from them (DO’S and DON’TS)
- Adapt to YOUR PLN as long as necessary
- Once YOU see as it is NOT anymore possible to LEARN something from YOUR PLN in Twitter Chats, visit other ones
- YOU will get NEW food for the brain for BETTER
- Search again for the NEW discovered and make curation about it for YOUR PKM
- The search includes ALSO ===> searching on Twitter for NEW hashtags <=== to follow on Twitter
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Click the above image, please, to access the search results about #EDUcation4.0 on Twitter.
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- General HELP from Twitter
- Twitter hashtags for EDUcation
- Create Twitter Lists
- Share The NEW learned through Social Media with OTHERS
- On the Friday’s there is a special hashtag for honoring YOUR tweeps (followers) and to share with OTHERS, THE “Follow Friday” <===> #FF
- Create blogs about the learned
- Create with #creativity
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- Ask for Feedback for the learned
- Accept constructive criticism for BETTER
- Design the LEARNing for YOU and for YOUR LEARNers
- Andragogy AND Heutagogy, check it please, VERY important:
- I write THIS on the end of the path, BUT it SHOULD be actually on the beginning <===> #Privacy #CyberSecurity <=== (MOST would have probably stopped reading if it would have been on the START, isn’t it) 😉 Anyway, it is about <===> Responsibility <===> SO WE can’t IGNORE it!
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Click the above image, please, to access the article. Move YOUR mouse cursor over the image then, YOU will see “black spots” that are links to the course.
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Check ALSO below, please.
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Click the above image, please, to access the article.
[GM] A very quick way of adapting for Professional Development is a daily base routine of Curation to grow YOUR “PKM” AND by using ===> Coaching and/or Mentoring <===. As well as Co-Teaching, TEAM-TEACHing, as one learns from each other. . TEACHers, EDUcators SHOULD get reduced in teaching classes for a certain time AND following Professional Development courses by experienced coaches during that time… These experienced coaches (from inside and/or outside the school) could get named “Key Instructors” or something else. Once THEY know it by PracTICE it’s THEIR role to give “Professional Development” courses to other teachers, educators. The curriculum as well SHOULDN’T be static, it MUST get updated as soon as there is something NEW to adapt to the situation. |
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A visual as FlowChart and/or Metro-Design will follow soon, stay tuned 😉
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The author Gust MEES is ICT Course Instructor, ”Member of the Advisory Board” from “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), BEESECURE, Official Partner (Consultant) from the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg, project “MySecureIT“, Official Partner from the Ministry of Commerce in Luxembourg, project “CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure). |
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Keywords for me to create this blog post: individual, research, autodidact, self-directed learning, PLN, PKM, Social Media, Twitter, analyzing, observing, listening, Feedback, searching, adapting, new brain food, opening the brain channel for NEW, openness, criticism, accepting, curation, hashtags, joining communities, growing community, Twitter Chats, sharing, blogs, blogging, learning from OTHERS, designing new courses, PracTICE, design, rituals, learning to learn, daily routine, Life-Long Learning, FlowChart, ThingLink, sharing…
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Stay tuned for next blog posts 😉
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