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PID 3100 – Assignment 2: Post #1 – Trends. Assignment For this assignment, my learning partner and I were given the task of identifying 2 trends in adult education that are of interest to us, and writing a series of 3 blog posts on them. We’ve decided to write on the use of Technology in…

PID 3100 – Assignment 4: Reflection 1 has us reflecting on quotes out of Merriam & Bierema’s Adult Learning – Linking Theory and Practice textbook. I chose my first reflective writing assignment to be on Rogers’ quote: “an educated person is one who has learned how to learn…how to adapt and change.” (p.31) Below is…

PID 3100 – Assignment 2: Post #3 – “Aha!” Moment Welcome to the third post in this series on Trends in Adult Education. To view the previous two posts click here and here. I’ve chosen to reflect on the focus on Higher Order Thinking in Vocational Training. I came to my “Aha!” moment by reflecting on…

PID 3100 – Assignment 4: Reflection 2 has us reflecting on quotes out of Merriam & Bierema’s Adult Learning – Linking Theory and Practice textbook. I chose my second reflective writing assignment to be on Merriam & Bierema’s quote : “learning from one’s experience involves not just reflection, but critical reflection” (p. 117) Below is the full text…

PIDP 3100 – Assignment 4: Reflection 3 Objective My third reflective writing assignment will be on Jill Bolte Taylor’s quote, “we may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think” (Taylor, 2009, p. 17). Here, Taylor is concluding that thinking, a function of the neocortex, is the last…

PID 3100 – Assignment 2: Post #2 – Implications In my previous post I introduced you to the two trends in adult education I’ll be writing on. I’d like to first focus on the Implications of Technology use in Adult Education. From the Instructor Technology use by the Instructor has increased dramatically. Instead of seeking guidance…