Learning How You Learn
The fifteen of you come from a wide array of various experiences, and many different majors. The list includes:
- Sociology
- Biology
- Mechanical Engineering
- Nursing
- Microbiology
- English
- Biochemistry
- Music
- Pharmacology
- Business
- Cinema
- Chemistry
- Speech and Hearing
My hope is to engage you based on your interests and to encourage you to share with the class your unique experience and perspective. Strive to connect what you already know and supplement it with what you will learn in this course. Choose your projects and write your blog posts based on this connection. I suppose that if you major is music, cinema, or speech and hearing that these connections will be relatively quick to recognize. The challenge, and a key goal of this course, is to synthesize ideas and concepts from your declared area of study with the wild music by these great composers. Don't feel limited to just your area of expertise, seek to learn by digging up the answers to the natural questions that may arise from this course. The more you learn, the more you realize what you don't know. You will be a student for life, so the skills and tools you utilize for this course, will continue to serve you well far into the future.
Here are a few related links you may want to check out:
15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning (Stepcase Lifehack)
Study Tip: Learn How You Learn (About.com)
Thank you for the tips! At first I was really concerned on how I was supposed to connect a business degree with music. As class has gone on and the more I have learned, the more project ideas pop through my head. I found "15 steps to cultivate lifelong learning" interesting! especial the point: 2) Keep a “To-Learn” List
ReplyDeleteWe all have to-do lists. These are the tasks we need to accomplish. Try to also have a “to-learn” list. On it you can write ideas for new areas of study. Maybe you would like to take up a new language, learn a skill or read the collective works of Shakespeare. Whatever motivates you, write it down.
I always have a to-do list, yet I never thought of making one for what i want to learn. That being said my connection with business to music is on my "to-learn" list.
Thanks for everything.. I'm in love with music, i listen to it everyday. Sadly, I don't necessarily listen to symphony orchestra as much but I do enjoy listening here and there. I want to change my major from communications to music because i feel like I could have my own radio station or maybe even join the Universities and start from there. I can give them a big hand when it comes to ideas for songs and mainly help them spread new and popular music...That would be quite the experience.
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