rewriting experience

Thoughts around todays am Skype discussion, have accompanied me through out the day.

We have talked about knowledge being something ongoing and fluid, not something static. We have also talked about revisiting situations with a new perspective, or as Mella put it rewriting experience. Which I found also very interesting during the process of writing my AOLs, depending on where I would put my focus, the "story" of my learning would be written differently. And Adesola said, she was interested in the "in-between bits". All of this has once again (it seems to happen quite often while engaging with this MA ;-), added another layer on my perception of what knowledge is to me.

What struck me most is, how MANY things knowledge can be and how many individual ways of constructing ones knowledge, there are. It seems to me like each person is weaving together his or her own fabric of knowledge, through out their lives. Each string connected and interweaved with another. Influenced by how we see the world, what our goals are, what society wants us to see or seek, what experiences we have had on our own learning journey and how we have dealt with it on an emotional, cognitive or physical level and the list could go on and on. But also the timing of when we are exposed to a certain experience or learning material can make a huge difference, of what we can "take" from it and some experiences don't make sense until much later, when they can be linked to something else, or when we are "ready" to take them in.

Thinking about what knowledge is, makes me feel at awe, its absolutely fascinating, but also overwhelming and intimidating at times. I also feel my whole concept of how I perceive, what teaching means, is shifting and transforming influenced by my perception of what knowledge is.
The student teacher relationship becomes much more intertwined. As two learning processes, that of teacher and student are happening and inspiring each other at the same time.

too many roads to take...

It was great in todays welcome Skype, to get a "walk" through myUnihub and all the important links, I feel like things are much clearer now on the organisational side. Especially the suggestion to add the "Follow by E-mail" gadget to peoples blogs and also the blogadresses being on the myUnihub web site now, looks like it will make blogging much easier. I also appreciated Adesola reminding us, that blogging is about having a conversation, not about presentation. I often found myself overthinking my comments and some times ended up not commenting at all, as it took me too long, to figure out what to write. Will try to work on that ;-).

Its good to be back after the break and dive into Module 2. Thoughts about the M2 inquiry have accompanied me all summer. I feel that there are research questions jumping out at me on every corner, after inspiring conversations, interesting reads or during class. While when starting Module 1 I was overwhelmed by all the information, I  now feel kind of overwhelmed by all the possibilities. Possibilities to choose an inquiry question from. Some times I feel like standing at a cross roads; there are so many paths I want to explore, each one more intriguing and interesting than the other and I just can't choose which one to take.

I find it quite a challenge to narrow down my questions and am very interested to hear about other peoples experience with the process of finding their inquiry question.

Looking forward to reading your blogs and comments!