The Feeling of Learning
Quite literally, unlimited power.
Over the last few weeks, I've spent more of my focus on high school drama than I should've put into my organization. After having stronger negative feelings yesterday, I've decided to turn my focus to learning entirely instead of being reliant on the fragile relationships I form at school. Note that when I say learning entirely, I don't mean keeping busy as a way of avoiding the problem; I mean that my focus needs to shift onto skills that will help me in the long run. I don't necessarily need to worry so much about what's going on right now in terms of school.
My grades aren't exactly holding steady. As much as I try to study, they are barely able to stay afloat. Now that I'm on a 4 day weekend, I'm spending my time learning the difference between what I'm doing and what is actually necessary. For example, at aquarc we've been avoiding the UI changes and adding a vocab quiz because it seemed like a "risky" feature. But that is the most important thing for us to do. In my reading of The Design of Everyday Things, I've started to focus more on building strong signifiers of anti-affordances and building a more feedback-intensive design.
At codeabode, the importance of project-based design hit me. I've designed a worksheet once to target confusion points and I was rather hesitant to create one again because the user seemed to understand what was going on. In an effort to avoid giving "busywork," I instead focused on project-based learning and encouraged my student to build a calculator app, followed by a game where you avoid asteroids. I feel that targetting confusion points that arrive as the student tries on their own is more useful than giving worksheets like in AP Computer Science, where I had to predict the output of loops that made no sense. They were useful I guess, but I'm going to try this approach instead and see where it takes codeabode. Might be a complete failure, but who knows?
Tags: reflection, growth