Expected, Inspected, & Respected.
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
I began this blog as a way for me to reflect on my learning, to have a record of the things I've done, and to serve as my digital portfolio. George Couros gives plenty of compelling arguments on his blog about why it's important for teachers to be self reflective, but despite my intention to put this knowledge into practice and make blogging a habit, I have failed. One habit that I have kept up, however, has been reading George Couros's blog and he had a recent post that encouraged me to start reflecting once again. In the post, he says that blogging serves to:
He also provides tips for blogging:
I think that it's difficult for me to keep up with self reflection because forcing myself to examine my flaws, while helpful for personal growth, is inherently unpleasant. The process of writing isn't my favourite thing to do either. George R.R. Martin apocryphally said, "I don't like to write, but I like having written." I feel the same way. During my hiatus from blogging, I have often been haunted by the thought of the Anton Chekhov quote under the title of this blog: "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." In order to walk the talk and keep a promise to myself, I'm going to share publicly my intention to produce a blog post bi-weekly here. (Do I mean twice a week or once every two weeks? Bi-weekly is basically meaningless.) As always, comments are welcome - even if you just want to chime in about how silly the word bi-weekly is - whether here, on my Facebook feed, or on Twitter.
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