El30 - Experience (Week 8)
Well, the penultimate topic for EL30 is on the subject of experience. I wasn't quite sure, when I started watching that week's recorded chat , what I would get from the week, but unsurprisngly I had a few "AHA!!!" moments. From the course page: "It is a truism that we learn from experience, and yet creating a role for experience in learning has been one of the most difficult problems in education. And so much of education continues to rely on indirect methods depending on knowledge transfer - reading, lectures, videos - rather than hands-on practice and knowledge creation." One of the first connections that came to mind was a connection to an overall curriculum. When someone attends your school, or even your program, should there be a requirement to go out in the field and do something? Let's say for my department (we educate applied linguists who aim to be language teachers), should everyone be required to do a practicum as part of their d...