Just a little reflection I wanted to share!
We are always encouraging our students to be risk takers with their learning, try something new and always look for better, more efficient ways of doing things; be curious by asking questions and thinking deeply about problems to find solutions we say! 🙂
It amazes me that, as adults, we do these things without thinking. We are ‘unconsciously skilled’ at using these learning attributes and finding solutions. I believe that I am able to demonstrate these things calmly (mostly!) and without much fuss!!
ENTER THE NEW COMPUTER INTO MY LIFE…………
Moving from a Lenovo notebook to a Mac has taken me back to being a true learner!! I am hamstrung when trying to complete basic computer tasks, I am learning a new language- things look the same but work differently, what would normally take 2 minutes takes 10, moving all of my information from one computer to the other (using an external hard drive I might add????!!!!) is proving so ‘beyond my understanding’ that it still isn’t done…..I feel like a member of the CSI MIAMI Team as I move between multiple computers to complete tasks!! I have been given really valuable and explicit, east to understand instructions on how to do this BUT it is just not computing…….
Basically.……everything that is familiar to me has become unfamiliar in a micro second!!
So…….what am I going to do? Sit back, as I have for the past 4 days, and pretend the problem doesn’t exist OR use the attributes and attitudes we encourage our students to use on a daily basis!!
The latter I say!
Tomorrow I shall:
* Find an expert in Macs and ask lots of questions…LOOK OUT those peeps!
* Find someone who has already transferred their data for more information on the process they used and to seek clarification