I'm on a two and one-half days pool-training course. When I first started doing pools we were given a pp14 of pencil-scrawl jotter — now I have a full pp236 full-colour folder, with diagrams and I'm required to sit an exam. Sic transit...
Personally I don't run a pool, so why am I on this course? There's a load of politics in that. My views about how the job should be done aren't always those of management. So I get to do punishment courses. When there are elements of management along for the ride this can often become me punishing them. Because I've been here [the OU] I'm very much better at them at learning. Because learning is a skill.
We [us OUers] have many advantages in this training-course situation: we know what learning strategy works for us [HatTip Jon], we can parse a text better and we have a learning-stanima. Not for nothing do we do all those three-hour exams.
We did an eight-hour day today, and, apart from me, I sensed that everyone was pegging. I was too but I'd turned my brain off a couple of hours before. I knew that I couldn't take anything else in and that I could read it in the morning. I was re-reading my notes.
When we had the pop-quiz it was interesting that I could find the pages in the pp236 or my notes when others were relying on their memories.
I'm not better than them, it's just that I have a better learning regime/idiom. In almost every essential what I've leant here [the OU] is how to learn.
pool training...
I'm on a two and one-half days pool-training course. When I first started doing pools we were given a pp14 of pencil-scrawl jotter — now I have a full pp236 full-colour folder, with diagrams and I'm required to sit an exam. Sic transit...
Personally I don't run a pool, so why am I on this course? There's a load of politics in that. My views about how the job should be done aren't always those of management. So I get to do punishment courses. When there are elements of management along for the ride this can often become me punishing them. Because I've been here [the OU] I'm very much better at them at learning. Because learning is a skill.
We [us OUers] have many advantages in this training-course situation: we know what learning strategy works for us [HatTip Jon], we can parse a text better and we have a learning-stanima. Not for nothing do we do all those three-hour exams.
We did an eight-hour day today, and, apart from me, I sensed that everyone was pegging. I was too but I'd turned my brain off a couple of hours before. I knew that I couldn't take anything else in and that I could read it in the morning. I was re-reading my notes.
When we had the pop-quiz it was interesting that I could find the pages in the pp236 or my notes when others were relying on their memories.
I'm not better than them, it's just that I have a better learning regime/idiom. In almost every essential what I've leant here [the OU] is how to learn.
Remember that.