Learn with the help of your kids: my learning experience
A recent task in INO 501 was to write a dialogue. Usually I don't have much of a problem to write things. However, I've never written a dialogue before, and it proved to be quite hard.
After staring for a while at the words "Characters" and "Setting" typed on a fresh white Word document and trying Elbow's method of writing whatever I think (in vain), I decided to look for help on the web. I found plenty of it - yet none helped much. Mostly it was about the style.
Since Socrates was not around, I decided to engage my 12 year old daughter's help. I started a dialogue with her, and lo and behold: it worked so well that after fifteen minutes I was enthusiastically typing the actual piece.
This learning style would probably best classified as Diverging, that combines concrete experience and reflective observation.
After staring for a while at the words "Characters" and "Setting" typed on a fresh white Word document and trying Elbow's method of writing whatever I think (in vain), I decided to look for help on the web. I found plenty of it - yet none helped much. Mostly it was about the style.
Since Socrates was not around, I decided to engage my 12 year old daughter's help. I started a dialogue with her, and lo and behold: it worked so well that after fifteen minutes I was enthusiastically typing the actual piece.
This learning style would probably best classified as Diverging, that combines concrete experience and reflective observation.
I enjoyed that airport dialogue. I think I'll try a similar exercise with one of my sons, to see what sort of a conversation we can come up with.
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