Comments on: Do by Learning http://www.gregfalken.com/2009/09/do-by-learning/ Thoughts on humanizing technology Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:48:02 -0700 hourly 1 By: GregF http://www.gregfalken.com/2009/09/do-by-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-18 GregF Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:59:17 +0000 http://www.gregfalken.com/?p=118#comment-18 I do find it easier to do creative work in the morning. To do so later in the day, I find it helps to take a short break between tasks and make a fresh start. Even with that, I'm only good for one or two sustained creative tasks in a day. Full disclosure: Kristi (Mrs. Robinson to her students) is my son's 5th grade teacher. She knows whereof she speaks. I do find it easier to do creative work in the morning. To do so later in the day, I find it helps to take a short break between tasks and make a fresh start. Even with that, I'm only good for one or two sustained creative tasks in a day.

Full disclosure: Kristi (Mrs. Robinson to her students) is my son's 5th grade teacher. She knows whereof she speaks.

]]> By: Kristi Robinson http://www.gregfalken.com/2009/09/do-by-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Kristi Robinson Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:29:10 +0000 http://www.gregfalken.com/?p=118#comment-17 This was very interesting Greg. What you are describing can be supported by brain research. We know now that there can be no new learning unless someone has been brought into a relaxed state. Under any type of stress or pressurized situation, the front part of our brain (frontal lobes) actually shuts down. It's yet another reason why I love being a Waldorf teacher. I get to spend most of my time finding out what the perfect rythm for my class is before I bring something new. I can gauge the class's ability to absorb the new material. Then I can bring the new concept or we can spend more time experiencing what we already know through art, activity and practice. Thanks for the link! :) P.S. Also not a surprise that you find it comfortable to do some concentrated work in the morning. As we sleep we digest new information and activities and we awake with a healthy level of forgetting and remembering. We are then the most fresh for a little bit of something new. Hence.....morning main lesson.......only practice in the afternoons! This was very interesting Greg. What you are describing can be supported by brain research. We know now that there can be no new learning unless someone has been brought into a relaxed state. Under any type of stress or pressurized situation, the front part of our brain (frontal lobes) actually shuts down. It's yet another reason why I love being a Waldorf teacher. I get to spend most of my time finding out what the perfect rythm for my class is before I bring something new. I can gauge the class's ability to absorb the new material. Then I can bring the new concept or we can spend more time experiencing what we already know through art, activity and practice. Thanks for the link! :)

P.S. Also not a surprise that you find it comfortable to do some concentrated work in the morning. As we sleep we digest new information and activities and we awake with a healthy level of forgetting and remembering. We are then the most fresh for a little bit of something new. Hence…..morning main lesson…….only practice in the afternoons!

]]> By: tom maguire http://www.gregfalken.com/2009/09/do-by-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-16 tom maguire Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:50:56 +0000 http://www.gregfalken.com/?p=118#comment-16 I find that project oriented learning is the most efficient way for me to acquire new abilities. Once I know what I'm trying to accomplish, whether it is a dialect for acting or software facility for a web site project, I then can go about learning. It requires a "no procrastination" policy for me to do this and be comfortable learning and producing as I go. I find that project oriented learning is the most efficient way for me to acquire new abilities. Once I know what I'm trying to accomplish, whether it is a dialect for acting or software facility for a web site project, I then can go about learning. It requires a "no procrastination" policy for me to do this and be comfortable learning and producing as I go.

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