This Assignment is only a discussion board. The file is attached down below!
Class: The Liberal Arts of Lifelong Learning.
Assignment: Discussion Board (400-600) word.
Learning Style, Personality, and Contemplating in Community
Comb through the videos, readings, and questions in the preceding pages and compose a 400-600 word post that discusses your personal learning styles, personality composition, views on contemplation, and how these compositional elements might inform your relationship with our learning community.
The post should include APA-style citations of at least three (3) sources from this week's materials.
Your initial post will be followed by at least 3 thoughtful responses to your colleagues' posts due by midnight Sunday*.
***The due date of this assignment reflects your initial post. And, this timing rhythm will remain fairly consistent during our 7 weeks together: initial post by Wednesday night. Three replies by Friday night.
The Liberal Art of Lifelong Learning and Why it's Amazing
Lifelong learning is the intentional process of pursuing lines of inquiry as adults for personal or professional reasons. I suspect it's what brought many of you to SHU. Perhaps you're trying to advance in your career, move into a new one, or something else.
These two videos elaborate on the value of Liberal Arts and how they serve lifelong learning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdEXCKfqIWELinks to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Kbfu_XOi0Links to an external site.
Illuminating the Spectrum of Personality and Learning Style
Personality has a lot to do with how we learn and interact with the world.
Take this personality assessment, and record your results to share in this week's discussion: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test Links to an external site.
I highly recommend making an account (it's free) and saving a detailed version of your personality profile to return to later. They will also send inspiring periodic emails to your account if you wish.
You may wish to explore some of the articles Links to an external site. ... If anything catches your interest, take note and save the link to come back to.
This link is all about ... Adult Learning Theory.
Learn about Multiple Intelligence Theory by clicking the link below:
Check out this interview with Gardner. (Links to an external site.)
Below are two brief learning styles assessments (I recommend taking both)
Click here to assess your learning style.
https://www.neumann.edu/academics/arc/advice/learningstyle.asp Links to an external site.
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Take note of your results, and be ready to share your thoughts on learning styles and Gardner in this week's discussion.
Practical Resources for Note-taking and Organizing Info:
Finding a system of note-taking and information organization that works for your personality and learning style is vital. Whether you keep a compsition notebook, a file in Goodnotes, a running word doc, a collection of voice memos, or something else-- make sure that it works for you AND that you're taking good notes of your process throughout the next 7 weeks. We'll pull from these notes during the weekly discussions, and they will also help with the construction of your personal mission statement.
Many of you may have heard of SMART planning. For those of you who are new to the idea or who need a refresher, please check this out (Links to an external site.).
Consider your own time orientation (Links to an external site.) and include your responses and insights in our first discussion.
TIP: Phillip Zimbardo (2010) is the author.
https://www.jimkwik.com/podcast/kwik-brain-kwik-tips-to-organize-information-for-deeper-understanding Links to an external site.
https://www.jimkwik.com/podcast/kwik-brain-strategies-for-taking-notes-youll-actually-remember Links to an external site.
Creativity is an essential component of learning. Jim Kwik has some practical wisdom that can help anyone access their creativity:
https://www.jimkwik.com/podcast/kwik-brain-215-finding-creativity-with-nick-onken Links to an external site.
Another key component of lifelong learning is curiosity. Cultivating and nourishing your capacity for curiosity is at the heart of lifelong learning. There are many ways to go about doing this.
Curate Your Personal Library
"The goal of an antilibrary is not to collect books you have read so you can proudly display them on your shelf; instead, it is to curate a highly personal collection of resources around themes you are curious about. Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore. " (Le Cunff. Building and Antilibreary: The Power of Unread Books. https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary Links to an external site.)
The Library, or as Le Cunff calls it: the antilibrary, can include far more than simply books or magazines, it can span to LPs, movies, Lego sets, globes, recipes, art, craft supplies ...
While the guts of this essay are quite moving, I'm personally kind of miffed by the "anti" and tend to believe that this article is just describing the purpose of a LIBRARY ... what do you think of "antilibrary" as opposed to "library"? Dissenting thoughts welcome.
What kind of lifelong learning library would you like to curate? What might be included in it?
Are Liberal Arts the Answer to Bullshit Jobs?
What do you think?
For reference (and maybe a chuckle), here's David Graber's Manifesto on Bullshit Jobs which he later turned into a book that's pretty decent: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ Links to an external site.
The Value of a Contemplative Practice-2
Read this page if you're wondering what contemplation is all about: https://cac.org/about/what-is-contemplation/ Links to an external site.
Click around the website and check out their articles and resources ... IF you feel curious, or moved to do so.
This piece is specific to contemplative practices in the nursing field: https://acmhn.org/the-value-of-contemplative-practices-in-mental-health-nursing-lets-get-contemplating/ Links to an external site.
Here's a tree of practices that are contemplative:
(https://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree Links to an external site.)
Additional Contemplative Tidbits to download if you're interested in a deep dive:
Deep Listening.pdf Download Deep Listening.pdf
beginner’s mind.pdf Download beginner’s mind.pdf
These last two are somewhat focused on classrooms and teaching specifically:
Dilley - This Very Moment.pdf Download Dilley - This Very Moment.pdf
Grossenbacher - Cognition and Awareness in Contemp.pdf Download Grossenbacher - Cognition and Awareness in Contemp.pdf
