A lot to learn

I just finished a mini-lesson on Learning 2.0 entitled, Pointers from Lifelong Learners. The lesson was pretty much a paradox. If we needed to learn the skills given in the lesson, then it's a safe bet we may not have acquired the skills to able to access the lesson in the first place. It was still a good topic to cover, and I consider it a refresher on what I already know. Okay, maybe I did learn a few things from it, but still.

It did make me think of the different ways we learn. Learning from example (I've had the benefit of good role models from pages to managers), learning from mistakes (I seem to have a talent for this method), learning from reading documents (gee, I work in library, who'd've thunk?), learning online (in progress as I type), learning by doing (I recently educated myself on scanning transparency film and photo-restoration by scanning over 300 slides from the 1970s with a flatbed photo scanner), learning from fiction (Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books has taught me to laugh at life's social foibles, among other things), learning by observing ("say...I can adapt that idea for our library branch!") learning by teaching (and learning patience) and social interaction ("Huh! I never thought of it that way. Thanks!").

And yet there's so much more. A thought both daunting and thrilling.

-- Greg @ the library