Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 17:54
Three decades on I can have a laugh online reminding friends and family what we were up to in our early teens.
I stopped keeping a diary when I started to blog in 1999; when you aren't recording events in private you become a reporter. I keep blogs with a focus: e-learning, swimming or the First World War. The diary is now at best 'Blip Photo', a picture a day.
Probably the visual record will be a far better way to recall people and events, people in particular.
Had I a camera strung around my neck in the 1970s and 1980s and could afford the film and printing costs what kind of record might I have?
In conversation with people I new in the 1970s it is staggering what we are starting to recall, the detail of people, food, smells, activities and feelings. As an educator I wonder what we can recall from the classroom, playing fields or swimming pool?
Or is education through secondary, even tertiary levels, 'learning to learn'?
Personally, I find a 'Learning Journal' an indispensable support to my scatter-brain. Nothing sticks unless I 'engage' through writing, sharing, discussing. I will read a book and not have a clue what it was about unless
I also listed the books I read, and the albums I purchased.
Even the posters I put up on the wall.
Do I want to think back to lesson on Silas Marner?
On the Tolpuddle Martyrs. 'Abba's Greatest Hits?'
Why not?
Bowie posters on the wall.
Shakespeare for sure.
School and the RSC Tour to the Newcastle Theatre Royal created in me a love for Shakespeare.
A few taps on my cerebellum and I can recite Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.
There are lessons worth remembering though.
And as you focus, particularly on sciences or law and medicine at tertiary level, let alone everything you are "required" to learn in the workplace this is stuff you need to engage with.
On keeping a dairy, a record, a blog, a journal.
Three decades on I can have a laugh online reminding friends and family what we were up to in our early teens.
I stopped keeping a diary when I started to blog in 1999; when you aren't recording events in private you become a reporter. I keep blogs with a focus: e-learning, swimming or the First World War. The diary is now at best 'Blip Photo', a picture a day.
Probably the visual record will be a far better way to recall people and events, people in particular.
Had I a camera strung around my neck in the 1970s and 1980s and could afford the film and printing costs what kind of record might I have?
In conversation with people I new in the 1970s it is staggering what we are starting to recall, the detail of people, food, smells, activities and feelings. As an educator I wonder what we can recall from the classroom, playing fields or swimming pool?
Or is education through secondary, even tertiary levels, 'learning to learn'?
Personally, I find a 'Learning Journal' an indispensable support to my scatter-brain. Nothing sticks unless I 'engage' through writing, sharing, discussing. I will read a book and not have a clue what it was about unless
I also listed the books I read, and the albums I purchased.
Even the posters I put up on the wall.
Do I want to think back to lesson on Silas Marner?
On the Tolpuddle Martyrs. 'Abba's Greatest Hits?'
Why not?
Bowie posters on the wall.
Shakespeare for sure.
School and the RSC Tour to the Newcastle Theatre Royal created in me a love for Shakespeare.
A few taps on my cerebellum and I can recite Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.
There are lessons worth remembering though.
And as you focus, particularly on sciences or law and medicine at tertiary level, let alone everything you are "required" to learn in the workplace this is stuff you need to engage with.