linarmstrong’s posterous

I was just reading another educators blog Lani in the united States , http://possibilitiesabound.blogspot.com/2008/12/beneath-surface.html        and it reminded me of the joy of teaching and learning with students that create a challenge. 

we all feel over whelmed at times by the study we are involved in but some have to cope constantly with the fear they are on the wrong track.

 I loved the Connectivism course CCK08    but it is    still challenging me to think ,read and write and there is enough material there to last for years! Imagine if every week felt like that much work and organizational battle.

The learners with dyslexia are usually hard to identify at first but I have learnt so much from so many of them that I feel confident in supporting and rephrasing their definition of them selves. 

As learners they have survived an education system that at best ignored them as if invisible and at worst failed to use their gifts and tallents and measured stuff they could not succed at without tremendous effort.

The tutors that hate working with dyslexia are missing a treat. I love the creativity and networked stance of the learner with dyslexia. They have had to get good at getting around liniar/ one way teaching and had to find strategies for all the challenges that reading ,writing,organizing bring.

The well set up course gives the impression this is the way to gain your knowledge and the power to change anything lies only with the tutor  who knows best.

 i enjoy helping learners to challenge the power paradigm. Surely good teaching is listening to fears, hopes ,expectations and re-designing the curriculum with people for people-in short connectivism but not alone with connectivism and behaviorism and any other methods that give humankind choices in their knowledge collections. and actually suceeding to finish school. There is a good discussion on power..and lots of other issues that i revisited to day o http://www.archive.org/details/Cck08UstreamSessionChatOctober172008