autonomous learning -what is it about?

AUTONOMOUS LEARNING

What is it about?

Beatriz Lupiano March 2010

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What I made today

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Not much, except…

…it can lead to this:

Pretty amazing,huh?

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How can that happen?

Well, I could take an Origami course

But I don’t want to commit to yet another scheduled activity…

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Here’s what I did then:

I bought a step-by-step origami guide. Great!! It has pictures, instructions,

and covers from the most basic folds to one or two advanced figures (like the swan in slide 3).

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First day: Frustration I couldn’t figure out

the instructions Or, for that matter,

what I’d done wrong…

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Second day

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Third and subsequent days

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Today (15 days after 1st attempt)

Hmmm….I’ll try again

with the proper paper.

Mum, have a look at this, please.

(about half an hour later) What’s this symbol

for? (I showed her in the book) What’s this fold

here? How do you do it? But this is the centre.

No, it’s not –this symbol says you have to push.

But…(you get the idea) Finally…

Look at the first picture. That doesn’t look like a

square. You need a rectangle.

Ahhhh…Let’s see now…(about another

half hour later…) Look!!!

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Great!!! Now I can move on to the next basic fold…

….or not

Is it the same feeling of frustration?

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NOT AT ALL!!!!

Now I know: That I need to pay attention to the

pictures as much as the words That I can do it; I’ve done the other

kind of fold, after all… I can ask for help I can recall the help I got and analyse

what I’m doing wrong

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So here are some of my thoughts from this experience:

Autonomous learning…

Comes in different forms –a self-study guide is just one.

Doesn’t exclude other people; I don’t have to figure out everything by myself.

Is built over time; with each attempt I can learn something new.

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Autonomous learning…

Happens better when I keep a positive attitude –I can learn from my mistakes (but a feeling of frustration is also natural –I just need to get past it).

To learn from my mistakes, I can analyse all the steps I took and compare them with other steps I’ve taken or read about to understand what I may have done wrong (and right!).

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That’s the end of this step

Many more will follow in my life… I know this, because there have been

previous ones…

I’ll try to write and share them with you.