Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach

On learning models, DnD, and dressage.

This time we grabbed a light topic with roleplaying games, horse riding, and arts, and gathered around an unlit campfire with the dogs for what turned out to be a deep dive into our learning and teaching experiences.

The path we took:

• Our most recent learning choices, favoring tabletop roleplaying and literary writing over tools of the trade.
• How learning things unrelated to our profession helps build context for our work.
• Teaching university classes, bootcamps, nights and weekends, designers, coders, and horse riders.
• The unseen work of mentoring or explicit teaching responsibilities.
• Learning models and pedagogical approaches, black boxes and cognitive apprenticeship.
• Gatekeeping by degrees versus the democratization of education.
• And a question for you, while we run from the boars: what is your favorite unexpected skill or piece of knowledge that you could use in your work?

Further reading:

• https://learningjournals.co.uk/what-are-the-different-pedagogical-approaches-to-learning/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_apprenticeship
• https://www.simplypsychology.org/zone-of-proximal-development.html
• https://www.storytellingcollective.com/pages/rpg-writer-workshop
• http://kunstfuck.tilda.ws/
• Ken Robinson on How schools kill creativity on TED

Grab your headphones, and head to the nearest forest to walk with us! - Just beware of the boars 🐗

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