Learning, Knowledge, and Truth. my thoughs before the skype meeting.

I have been thinking about learning, knowledge, truth, fact, Actual, Reality, and Real and what all of these words mean, so I went looking into my dictionary. I found that:

Learning is:

1.the act or experience of one that learns
2. knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study
3. modification of a behavioural tendency by experience.

which leads me to what is knowledge, and experience, checking my dictionary again I have found the following:

Knowledge is:

1. cognizance
2. the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association
3. acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique
4. the fact or condition of being aware of something
5. the range of ones information or understanding
6. the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning : cognition
7. the fact or condition of having information or of being learned
8. the sum of what is known, the body of truth information, and principles acquired by mankind

Experience is:

1. Act of trying
2. direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledge,
3. the fact or state of having been affected by or gained knowledge through direct observation or participation.
4. a practical knowledge, skill, or practice derived from direct observation of or participation in events or a particular activity\
5. the conscience events that make up an individual life
6. the events that make up the conscience past of a community or nation or mankind generally
7. something personally encountered, undergone, or lived through
8. the act or process of directly perceiving events or reality

Truth is:

1. Fidelity, Constancy
2. Sincerity in action, character, and utterance
3. the state of being the case : FACT
4. the body of real things, events, and facts : Actuality
5. a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality
6. a judgement, proposition, or idea that is true, or accepted as true
7. the body of true statements and propositions
8. the property of being in accord in accord with fact or reality
9. fidelity to an original or to a standard

Fact is:

1. a thing done
2. feat
3. action
4. performance doing
5. quality of being actual
6. something that has actual existence
7. an actual occurrence
8. a piece of information presented as having objective reality


Actual is:

1. Active
2. existing in act, and not merely potentially
3. existing in fact or reality
4. not false, or apparent
5. existing or occurring at the time

Reality is:

1. Quality or state of being real
2. a real event, entity or state of affairs
3. the totality of real things or events
4. something that is neither derivative nor dependant but exists necessarily

Real is:

1. relating to things
2. of or relating to fixed, permanent or immoveable things
3. not artificial, fraudulent, illusory, or apparent : Genuine
4. being precisely what the name implies
5. occurring in fact
6. of or relating to practical or everyday concerns or activities
7. existing as a physical entity and having properties that deviate from an ideal law, or standard
8. having objective or independent existence
9. belonging o or having elements that belong to the set of real numbers
10. being capable of being detected

of course not all of these points are relevant, or will work together, but they are all in my train of thought and connected when it comes to knowledge, and what we know, and what is learning.

Communication

This week I have been thinking a lot about communication. When I have been teaching my own students, I have been wondering how if changing the way I explain things, or how I explain things, will get better short term results. What if I change the tone of my voice? this is all leading to what types of teachers did I have myself, that I enjoyed, and how much of my enjoyment by them was a direct result of how they were able to communicate? So this last week I have been looking at everything I am able to find in book, and articles, and to help me answer my questions about what role in teaching does communication serve, and how at what level of importance is it? I think it is obvious, but I think there are many levels that I personally need to learn more about.

Qualified

Hello everyone, I came across this article that a friend posted on facebook. It made me think, what makes someone qualified to be a dance teacher, I mean the bare minimum requirement, please leave your answer below, and even ask the families of your own student, or even your own students. I am really curious to find out the answer!

Also check out this article, it is an interesting read about Conducive learning environments!

https://www.herald.co.zw/creating-a-conducive-learning-environment/

Welcome Back Skype

Hello again,

It was wonderful to see lots of new faces, and of course the familiar older faces in the skype meetings today. I will do my best at reflecting on what happened today, it is a little difficult as the skype meeting started at 6:00am local time.

We the majority of the skype meeting was informative, and geared towards awareness of the resources available to us as students, through our advisors, librarian, and Unihub.

After the introduction, and in depth tour of unihub, there was some discussion about the importance of being organized and creating personal schedules to keep on track for the duration of the module, as well as some brief discussion about the importance of reflecting, and recording our regular activities that we do in a given work day.

Overall there was a lot of information for everyone, involved thank you to Adesola, Helen, and Maria. I am looking forward to Module 2.