When I was young, I learnt to love books, study them, reread them, slowing at favorite parts hanging onto my favorites. As I grew, I still hoarded knowledge, not to keep it away from others, as I shared it freely, but to have easy access to it when needed. There was no internet and books were expensive, so when I found quality data I stored it on a shelf or in a filing cabinet. When I took courses I would dutifully purchase the text, quality or not, and would often supplement with other purchases or trips to the library. As technology advanced so did my access to data, sometimes quality, often not. My issue became one more of filing and access, trying to find what I had hoarded. Technology gave me gifts such as One Note and Evernote to help file and collect. At first I would collect the entire article so it wouldn’t get lost, then shifted to only collecting the URL. The internet was becoming my hoard.
I am now learning the intricacies of hash tags and how to identify, sort, and master their use. Not only to help me access my hoard of information but to assist others to access what I have already spent time searching out.
I recently had what for me was a scary and simultaneously freeing realization. For much of my life I have been the resource that others would come to. They would come to access my hoard of information, whether it was the data, the road-map to the data, or simply a path to learn and create their own data. Because of my skill, MY access points to data have often felt quite limited, especially factoring in geography and others with lower levels of discernment. With more and more open access and more people sorting and sifting data, I can now access very differently and let go of much of my hoarding. I can expand my access points electronically allowing select others to feed me the information or food for thought from around the world, even in real time as it is being created.
This is the future of learning. Collaborations of inquiry, accessing multiple open sources even in real time to create knowledge and integration not limited by a teachers “expertness”.
The sun came up a bit brighter this morning. Of course I’ll keep a few books just in case the internet breaks…
I am now learning the intricacies of hash tags and how to identify, sort, and master their use. Not only to help me access my hoard of information but to assist others to access what I have already spent time searching out.
I recently had what for me was a scary and simultaneously freeing realization. For much of my life I have been the resource that others would come to. They would come to access my hoard of information, whether it was the data, the road-map to the data, or simply a path to learn and create their own data. Because of my skill, MY access points to data have often felt quite limited, especially factoring in geography and others with lower levels of discernment. With more and more open access and more people sorting and sifting data, I can now access very differently and let go of much of my hoarding. I can expand my access points electronically allowing select others to feed me the information or food for thought from around the world, even in real time as it is being created.
This is the future of learning. Collaborations of inquiry, accessing multiple open sources even in real time to create knowledge and integration not limited by a teachers “expertness”.
The sun came up a bit brighter this morning. Of course I’ll keep a few books just in case the internet breaks…