Learning by Doing
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Sept 14, 2010
I was asked in a conference presentation today about the reserach that supports learner autonomy, I thought George Siemens's answer was better than my own - I talked about the difficulty of evaluating learning outcomes when every learner is seeking to achieve different outcomes. George talked about whether we really need research to understand the benefits of autonomy - nobody would question whether autonomy in the workplace works, for example. All of that said, I think that examples like this post from Alan Levine abound - and this is the sort of example that has actually convinced me over the years. He talks about how he became a much better photographer in the unstructured and informal 'photo a day' exercise. That has been for me pretty much the way I've learned anything of importance to me, whether it be writing, coding software, parsing misleading newspaper coverage, or playing darts. Oh yeah, and photography.
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