Learning Habits 2

Learning Habits 2:

I think that learning through play is as likely to be hard as easy. Most of the time I attempt to make a play out of learning it easily becomes much more play than learning. Some subjects are, however, so engaging that they turn learning into play without any special effort. I guess much of it depends on how you relate to what you are learning. And yes, age and experience matter too: the more learning you've done for credit, the harder it is to think of learning as play. Children have an advantage here.

Learning Habits 1

The most difficult to learn habit:
I found that taking responsibility for one's own learning can be rather challenging, more so than other habits suggested in the presentation (7.5 learning habits). Most people's education in the first 20-25 years of their lives seems to be structured by someone else. If there is room for choices, there is little guidance on how to make them. One is told what, when, and in what order to learn, and how exactly to pack one's brain with whatever facts and skills that need to be packed in it. Starting self-education may feel a little like for a domestic animal to find itself in the wild: many options and little idea of how to make them.

The easiest to learn habit:
Neither of these habits seems particularly easy, but using technology is fairly simple these days, at least for the basic tasks: finding an electronic book, locating a print one, listening to streaming media etc.