U-Blog 6

For my final U-Blog, I want to reflect on a few things from the semester.

The Heritage at Lowman training session was a good experience, and gave me a chance to experience what it's like to train a crowd. I've had experience teaching people, but never an entire classroom, and definitely not a class that had very little experience in the subject. It was a good eye-opener.

Another item we touched on throughout the semester was learning with a hands-on approach. I wish they would evaluate teachers on this more often. Standing in front of a class just talking for hours doesn't do too much in the way of having people learn as much as they could.

For my group's initial wiki assignment we were given a chance to look into experiential learning, which I found very interesting. Experiential learning dealt a lot with hands-on activities, so that was right up my alley. The articles on experiential learning made a good point: just because you've had experience in something doesn't mean you've necessarily learned anything, and you're definitely not an expert until you've had repetition many times. You can't just give someone a simple task to do with their hands and expect them to learn anything. Tradition learning by way of lecture and testing is an important parallel to anything hands-on.

Overall, this class was a helpful lesson in workplace learning and training.