Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Refocusing is important!

If you haven't seen my course objectives yet, please click here

I firmly believe that developing, editing, and reviewing course objectives is an essential task that must never be overlooked.  Many times, especially in a class such as this, it is easy to get lost in the sea of tools and applications that we use.  It becomes very easy to complete a set a tasks without a focus.  When there is no focus, the task becomes meaningless, because there is no driving force. When one keeps course objectives in focus they become a filter, through which all coursework is seen.  For instance, I can write this blog and say something like, "It was nice to be able to review my work and see the difference and how I have changed since the beginning of the course." While that may be true, how does that comment apply to my objectives?  It doesn't.  It is much better to apply this to education like I am doing with this blog.  Students must always be reminded of the focus, the goal, etc... so they're efforts actually produce a fruit in their learning and so the teacher doesn't spend countless hours developing lessons that don't work because the student had a poor vantage point (in other words, the student wasn't looking through the filter of the objectives; there was no driving force, no goal in mind).

To me, this is the difference between trying to earn a grade by completing a set of tasks and learning.  And, let's face it.  It is human nature to choose the path of completing the tasks.  Honestly, even religion, has been reduced to this.  "Do this, this, and that, and then you're fine."  No, allow the purpose for these tasks to change you, the way you think, your desires, etc... and then you have learned!!! 

Does this make sense to anyone, or am I rambling...?

1 comment:

  1. Haha... you're rambling... LOL!

    But seriously, it's good. I wish we could do away with all the checklist activities and focus on what matters.

    d.i.

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