tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.comments2021-11-17T03:45:52.146-08:00Thomas Steele-MaleyThomas Steele-Maleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13033774492302700093noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-50800884699498136932011-07-10T07:28:18.359-07:002011-07-10T07:28:18.359-07:00Susan, your right on. Teacher training is a big pa...Susan, your right on. Teacher training is a big part for the overall system. Making that "how did you do that into participatory action and networked learning is difficult but may be essential. See the work of Monika Hardy and community at the TDS Innovation Lab here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eH5dT34ps4T4iaVyDPUA_MUfffGmtr02wBcFukwV6c0/edit?hl=en&pli=1Thomas Steele-Maleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13033774492302700093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-3536111223181073622011-07-06T03:09:46.195-07:002011-07-06T03:09:46.195-07:00You're right. I tried to teach a class in the ...You're right. I tried to teach a class in the '80s with a connectivist approach. Didn't use the term then, called it 'individualized learning'. I raced around the community finding additional books, movies, mentors, speakers, examples for each student. I was facilitator extraordinaire. But it worked. Massive connections were made. Other teachers were fascinated but kept asking me "How did you do this?"<br />What the Internet does is allow this kind of learning to finally take place. We need new forms of teacher training in order to make it work.Susan Bainbridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04517712804073312889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-74349236438644707282011-06-15T10:09:38.000-07:002011-06-15T10:09:38.000-07:00Steven is still too far toward the tech me. If net...Steven is still too far toward the tech me. If networked learning is wider in scope than that which technology mediates, then the examples in his slides could be far wider. I better reference to Downes might be his Groups vs Networks, where he pulls back from technological examples and metaphors, and talks about networks in slightly more abstract and general terms. Illich's Learning Webs is the best definition I've found. 1971.. relatively free from the blinding tech eccentricity we have today. Soon after Illich, Christopher Alexander and co published A Pattern Language, in which that support Illich's definition with practical steps in town planning that encourages networked learning (page 99). <br><br>Your definitions are a useful reflection for me. I realise now why I think an updated definition for networked learning is needed (one that challenges the UK academe). To be in a position to network learning, you need to be open minded - meaning we don't just look to institutions for opportunities to learn, your whole environment is a space for learning; willing to participate - meaning we get involved, introduce ourselves, situate our learning rather than abstract it further, help out, get hands on; and of course critical - where we find ways to constructively question our surroundings and systems, our tools (especially recent technology), and actively get perspective with which to reflect on situations with... There are other things, such as creativity, freedoms, flexibility, and no doubt more...Leigh Blackallhttp://leighblackall.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-42972120995762049662011-06-17T23:49:27.000-07:002011-06-17T23:49:27.000-07:00Sorry for the tardy reply, Leigh. Your thoughts h...Sorry for the tardy reply, Leigh. Your thoughts here re-enforce what I know of you, your thinking and lifeway. The Alexander reference is hugely helpful, do you know where an open version exists? Illich's learning webs exist in concert with most all of his work in my mind. The root remains that the structures humanity seeks to impose on itself are historic yes (10,000 years worth of hominid history), but are crumbling due to overshoot. How we see the patterns for our generation and participate in/design networks that enable social mutation is where I see our work.....paramount. <br><br>Your points at:<br><br>"To be in a position to network learning, you need to be open minded – meaning we don’t just look to institutions for opportunities to learn, your whole environment is a space for learning; willing to participate – meaning we get involved, introduce ourselves, situate our learning rather than abstract it further, ****help**** out, get hands on; and of course critical – where we find ways to ****constructively question our surroundings and systems, our tools (especially recent technology), and actively get perspective**** with which to reflect on situations with" <br><br>are both rich and provocative. I look forward to working with you moreThomas Steele-Maleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-90473825545080074302011-04-28T03:38:27.000-07:002011-04-28T03:38:27.000-07:00Thank you so much for this farewell! I wish you th...Thank you so much for this farewell! I wish you the best as well. I will take all I have learned in your course and use it to my advantage in my future endeavors. My students will benefit greatly from all you taught me!! Have a wonderful summer, and let your foot heal up!! Thank you again, before this class, I will anti-technology in the classroom, imagine that!Chloe Lucyhttp://chloelucy.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-29328619645157065462011-03-22T03:18:49.000-07:002011-03-22T03:18:49.000-07:00Thomas; You bring up many issues, but I'll spe...Thomas; You bring up many issues, but I'll speak to 3 where I've had some experience and thoughtfulness. Please don't take this as an attempt to rain on your parade. I too would like to seek new ecologies and better understand the ones I see in formation.<br>1. I've always taken issue with critical educators and reconstructionists in general when it comes to politics. I'm a great supported of education's role in supporting political reform, but I've found it personally frustrating as a teacher when education attempts to lead or inspire political reform.<br>2. There is very little standardization in educational practice. It is found in control structures like curriculums and assessments and I do believe there it is there to seek control in an obsessive way. There are places where standardized practice could help each teacher not have to continually re-invent the wheel in activities where standardization makes sense. I believe every educational activity could be placed somewhere on a continuum with standardization on one side and individualization on the other. I consider standardization a tool that is only appropriate for some circumstances.<br>3. Regarding the quote from Dewey; I believe that content is not fully understood until it is embedded in activity and then it takes on the character of that activity. That is, the knowledge you memorized in preparation for recall on a test is not the same knowledge you'll need to do things in real life. It will take substantial contextual adaptation, or internalization as appropriation as James V. Wertsch puts it in "Mind in Action. (Another anthropologist / educator) I think Vygotsky understood this better than Dewey. The task for us is to update Vygotsky. He lived in a world that was comfortable thinking about learning processes in a teacher / student diode, where today we're more inclined to see learning as a networked and ever evolving process.Howardhttp://howardjohnson.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-33705454173266917802011-03-22T06:55:02.000-07:002011-03-22T06:55:02.000-07:00Thank you for the response, Howard. Your link to ...Thank you for the response, Howard. Your link to Wertsch is instructive. I will dig into Mind in Action as I have only given it a glance. As for standardization, power and politics I have seen as a teacher the damage curriculum and assessment can do. The nexus between curriculum/assessment and praxis seen in all but the most progressive schools is political in my estimation. Michael Apple (professor and k-12 teacher) summed this up well in Ideology and Curriculum. New York: Routledge, 1990 and Education and Power. New York: Routledge, 1995 along with Ivan Illich Deschooling Society (1970), Bowles and Gintis Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. New York: Basic, 1976. I do not see education as a diode but a network of emerging ideas, abilities, failures, and connection--to people, places, and more. My students teach me as much as I teach them, and the community, and a network of experiences teach us all constantly. The barrier to this learning in my experience has always been with the structure of the school which are well ingrained in a politic of stasis and lack of flow. Dewey, Vygotsky, Papert et al. taken, our ability to see beyond structures and the standardization of movements, times, and spaces in learning are not being widely addressed or adopted.Thomas Steele-Maleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-43211286738600790992011-03-22T09:49:55.000-07:002011-03-22T09:49:55.000-07:00Hey Thomas;I guess my take on ideas that grow our ...Hey Thomas;<br>I guess my take on ideas that grow our of critical pedagogy (like many other Marxist based schools) is that their analysis is true, but where do u go next. Organizing and revolution with a Marxist bent; I just haven't seen a good example where resistance has worked toward a good outcome in economic or political circumstances. Now I believe Schumpterian creative distruction is rampant and many capitalist strongholds are falling without work resistance. Assembly line models of control aren't serving anyone's purpose anymore and change is in the air. New efforts of control will be attempted and political work is needed. Here is one example: http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Tim-Wu-Save-the-Internet-/126756/ I just want to see that in political contexts like what is happening in Egypt, not through subversive educational and Marxist contexts.<br>Institutional change is needed in education to serve the students and society. I'm in favor of focusing on people like Dewey and Vygotsky, who focused primarily on education not politics, which I see as the primary focus of critical pedagogy. Vygotsky's life goal was to create a Marxist psychology for education, but his work was banned because it focused on serving the needs of individual students in their context. It didn't fit Stalinist politics (Seems he dared to reference western authors like Piaget).<br>I do respect your views and I'm welcome to any insights that might help me to return from my abandonment of critical pedagogy. Note - most of my views of critical pedagogy are based on Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren and Paulo Freire. I'm less versed on Apple's workHowardhttp://howardjohnson.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-88628925432305894092011-03-27T02:38:01.000-07:002011-03-27T02:38:01.000-07:00Howard, sorry it took so long to respond. Your po...Howard, sorry it took so long to respond. Your points at "their analysis is true, but where do u go next." are my focus. I am interested in helping networks flow and in co-designing a learning ecology that can serve as a catalyst for more nodes in network. The process of de-schooling is an important one. If we do not read think and deliberate on critical education, I feel we are all stuck in an education without praxis. In my estimation all design starts with theory and social imagination....These are social constructs and "political" at times. Apple and Illich (who I would suggest.....) are both theoretician and practitioner. How Network Learning, connectivism, critical praxis and design can inspire, uplift, and liberate human imagination is of much interest to a growing network of learners. I would like to see, find and connect to more thinking this way.... CC: CCK11Thomas Steele-Maleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-41595056303979774862011-03-14T11:22:03.000-07:002011-03-14T11:22:03.000-07:00Money is an issue, and it sadly it seems like it w...Money is an issue, and it sadly it seems like it will always be the issue. If someone had told me that "America spends $1.1 billion dollars per year testing their children" I probably wouldn't have believed it, that is a crazy amount of money! And what does this testing truly do? Well for me, it made me hate tests, which lead to test anxiety. I didn't learn anything from taking these tests, instead my teachers only taught me what was on the tests. My mom is a Principal and she is struggling to get the district to allow her to start up a Pre-K at the school. The district says they do not have the funding right now for a Pre-K! I find that to be a sad excuse, no funding for a child's education? Instead we are spending "$1.1 billion dollars" on testing, not on Pre-K programs! Those are definitely some scary facts.Kelsi McHughhttp://kelsimchugh.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-52207419885953374392011-02-13T20:53:27.000-08:002011-02-13T20:53:27.000-08:00many thanks Thomas. I've bookmarked this post ...many thanks Thomas. I've bookmarked this post to my Delicious under deschooling and free-learning, as well as added the video of Apple speaking to my Deschooling playlist. I've retweeted you into Richard Hall, Joss Winn and Dougald Hine (if you weren't already communicating with the "UK Connection" :) also Roberto Greco in San Diego. Persoanlly, I am finding these people are writing the most radical, so I hope we can strengthen a network with them.Leigh Blackallhttp://leighblackall.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-41074249366835567932011-02-17T12:34:02.000-08:002011-02-17T12:34:02.000-08:00"Maybe the internet is just a fad", &quo..."Maybe the internet is just a fad", "That's your job", "Are you going to be my teacher"! I love this video, and this kid! Definitely one that should be played for all current teachers and future teachers. The thought that the internet is just a "fad" is ridiculous, but I am sure some teachers might think that. We as educators, and life long learners, cannot ignore technology, or be afraid of it! We are supposed to guide students into the world, and our world is surrounded with technology. Technology definitely isn't going anywhere. I hope a video like this can make teachers rethink what their purpose is in a students life. Technology is not a fad, but hopefully teachers that ignore technology are just a fad! They will be replaced!Kelsi McHughhttp://kelsimchugh.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-5456923870816936712011-02-11T03:43:11.000-08:002011-02-11T03:43:11.000-08:00Wow, that video is very powerful! Hearing the word...Wow, that video is very powerful! Hearing the words from a child makes all that more of an impact! When he said the line, "Are you going to be just another text book?", I really perked up. For, I know so many teachers who just read straight from the text book! All through middle school, we would read along and gain no knowledge from the actual teacher...just text from the book, I could have read on my own! A teacher is an important figure who has a significant role in the student's learning. They do not participate any through reading off the exact words of a text book. These are the teachers that will ultimately be replaced by technology. For if the teachers face the world of technology and embrace the advantages of the tools in the classroom, they will allow creativity of knowledge of the students, incorporate fun into the curriculum, and permit a much more efficient way of learning. These ARE the teachers of the future.Chloe Lucyhttp://chloelucy.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-32334417669140804042011-02-03T03:39:27.000-08:002011-02-03T03:39:27.000-08:00"What do you really want out of learning? Wha..."What do you really want out of learning? What if I were to give everyone in EDT 400 an A now? What would happen? Let me know if this is what the community wants, my ears and eyes are open."<br><br>I want to be able to blog about what I find relevant to this class and then take this knowledge and share it with classmates and discuss what we find. If we were all the get an A, I think I would focus more on finding relevant information out there and less on what is the minor little details/assignments/memos I might be missing. I am focusing more on what the rubric calls for than what I want to learn and expand my knowledge in. I am concerned about the project. I have this crazy idea I want to do, but if it does not fit the rubric to a T, I find myself altering an idea that may have been more powerful before the requirements. I am really enjoying this class and exploring videos on Youtube that are about education and not Ludacris' next hit song or some dumb person fall off a ski lift. I am starting to take technology that was used for social reasons and apply them to academic reasons. :)Linda Gaudreauhttps://heyamoose12.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-80696658010828939152011-02-03T05:07:18.000-08:002011-02-03T05:07:18.000-08:00Grades seem to be nothing more than an indication ...Grades seem to be nothing more than an indication of whether one passed or failed. Grades represent the quality of work one does and the amount of work. Grades however, bring along more than just these things to students. <br>Personally, grades are incredibly important to me. I like receiving a good grade and the grade helps me feel better about myself and the work I did. Grades make all the work seem worth while. Yet, if someone were to just give me an 'A' with no reason or evidence of my good work, I wouldn't feel as proud about the grade. Though this class can be struggle sometimes and I wish I would just get a grade and be done, I think if I were to be just given a good grade, the grade wouldn't mean anything. I like knowing that an A means the highest of praise and I like knowing I worked for the grade. To be just given a grade is something I wouldn't accept. I want to work for my grade, but I want the grade to be graded on my efforts and attempts and achievements, especially in this course that is not self-taught, but definitely self-motivated.Amber Mansfieldhttp://amberranaemansfield.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-76491852064483139802011-02-03T08:18:26.000-08:002011-02-03T08:18:26.000-08:00If I were to be give an A right now, I am not goin...If I were to be give an A right now, I am not going to lie, I would accept it. However, the grade would be meaningless for me, and I would be embarrassed to tell people that I got an A at the start of a class without having to do a whole lot. For me, A's mean that I have worked hard, studied hard, and put effort into a class. This A would mean that the class was easy and the instructor gave out A's easily, and that is not rewarding. I would accept it because I would be afraid of getting anything less and I would hope by the end of the class I would feel as though I deserved it. If I was given this A, I would continue to blog with pictures and videos, complete the project, tweet every so often, and the rest of the required work. This would make the A have a little more meaning for me so that I don't feel so guilty. If I attached meaning to the A, I wouldn't be so embarrassed about it or think it was given out for no reason. I could take the easy way out and accept the A, and then slack off the rest of the semester. But like I said, I like to feel rewarded and an A is a reward for working hard. In all honesty, it is just a letter, but I think I get this idea of "good job, you worked hard, so you get an A" from public school, so I have attached meaning to an A. Overall, I would accept the A and try to prove to myself that I deserve the A by keeping up with the required work, and hopefully learning along the way. I do want to point out that I think I would learn more from this class if a grade wasn't attached to my work, and I could just learn for myself, not for my GPA.Kelsi McHughhttp://kelsimchugh.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-87386227833005981192011-02-03T10:17:46.000-08:002011-02-03T10:17:46.000-08:00In theory, and literally, one can receive an "...In theory, and literally, one can receive an "A" in a course and still fail, however, it is very personal. If the student personally "feels" that he/she should receive an "A" for absolutely absorbing everything possible from the class and gained all the possible knowledge not previously obtained. The measurement for the latter, is also very personal. No one can REALLY gauge internal successes besides one's self. Tests, quizzes and assessments are physical representations of the amount of knowledge gained in a broad subject. Grades essentially are the "key" for progressing in a certain field. They are indicators of self-motivation and integrity (all still personal of course). In EDB 221, this topic is discussed and people are in favor of one or the other arguments. It's a touchy subject because some people just like seeing and are reassured by one simple letter stating "where they stand" or how much they know. If someone gets an "A" in a class, dishonestly, then they still fail the course because they took nothing and/or gained nothing from the course, which is over all the main objective to begin with...Marcus Desveauxhttp://desveaux.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-82589584059010952852011-02-03T13:09:28.000-08:002011-02-03T13:09:28.000-08:00If I were given an A I would never look at the rub...If I were given an A I would never look at the rubric again. I would stop focusing on the little things that are requirements for "good posts" and I would not watch or read the "required reading" or pay attention in class unless it is interesting. I'd skip class if I had a test coming up or if I wanted to take an extra long lunch. <br><br>On the other hand, if I were given an A right now I would use the time that I saved from cutting out the above activities to browse more blogs that interested me. They might be on technology in education, physics or any other subject. I would comment and contact the authors and expand my network. I would spend more time on TED and watching documentaries and interviewing my professors who do research in physics education. <br><br>So yeah, a guaranteed A would be great, but I'll get an A either way so I don't really care. The difference will be either learning what you want me to learn or what I want to learn.John Schroederhttp://www.johngschroeder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-29373986481541984972011-02-03T14:42:40.000-08:002011-02-03T14:42:40.000-08:00If I received an 'A' automatically in a co...If I received an 'A' automatically in a course, without any effort whatsoever...I would accept the grade, but feel some guilt and as if I wasted my time even signing up for the course. Students pay mass amounts of money for college courses, yes to receive a passing grade in order for the course to be counted toward their credits and GPA, but also to gain knowledge that can put to good use in their field. If they are not educated or do not have to partake in any work, the students have simply just payed 600 dollars for 3 credits and a letter grade, but no new information. To me, this is pointless. My reason for being in college is to learn much and to be prepared to educate second grade students. Just receiving 'A''s will not get me there. I believe it is the duty of the professors to supply us with the knowledge we need to succeed and our responsibility to apply that information. <br><br>But really, if you want to give me an A...I won't fight you or anything... :)Chloe Lucyhttp://chloelucy.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-15410627572205644792011-02-04T01:58:57.000-08:002011-02-04T01:58:57.000-08:00Most of the time I deserve the grade I get, howeve...Most of the time I deserve the grade I get, however there were still the teachers who expected you to only do so much for a perfect grade. So obviously there was no point to stretching beyond anything better than what was adequate. So to say that I tried my hardest in every class would be a huge overstatement.<br>I took four years of Latin in high school, all of which were dreadfully painful. The first three years were measured by how well you did on assignments and tests. However our Latin teacher had been teaching at Leavitt since the beginning of 1980 and knew how difficult Latin could be and so for the senior year of Latin he would judge by how much work you put into the three years before. We still had the same work load but he weighted your grade by what grade you actually deserved rather than how well you did on the last translation.<br>It's hard to actually give a grade for effort when a teacher is looking for a certain quality of work, but if it were to go to fairness to the student, then the effort is a better showing of the student then the physical grade of their work.Lauren Turnerhttp://turnerlauren.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-31008620511316820362011-02-04T05:33:45.000-08:002011-02-04T05:33:45.000-08:00I believe that you can still receive an A for a gr...I believe that you can still receive an A for a grade and still fail. Many individuals learn information to be graded on and then once they have received their grade, the information is somewhat forgotten. This isn’t said about everyone, but I know for myself, If I’m taking a class that isn’t interesting to me, but is required for graduating, I don’t exactly put my learning “cap” on so to say. But say for classes that are specific to my major and interests me, I tend to keep the information I’ve learned in my brain. So back to the question of receiving an A, but still failed, I think this is possible and I know that if you are to receive an A, you should have earned it, which means putting time into something, thus it would be beneficial to retain what you have just learned instead of all your hard work going to waste, and not really benefiting you. What’s the point of putting time and effort into something if your just going to get a good grade but after it is given not getting anything else out of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-31429937633995086272011-02-04T05:37:13.000-08:002011-02-04T05:37:13.000-08:00believe that you can still receive an A for a grad...believe that you can still receive an A for a grade and still fail. Many individuals learn information to be graded on and then once they have received their grade, the information is somewhat forgotten. This isn’t said about everyone, but I know for myself, If I’m taking a class that isn’t interesting to me, but is required for graduating, I don’t exactly put my learning “cap” on so to say. But say for classes that are specific to my major and interests me, I tend to keep the information I’ve learned in my brain. So back to the question of receiving an A, but still failed, I think this is possible and I know that if you are to receive an A, you should have earned it, which means putting time into something, thus it would be beneficial to retain what you have just learned instead of all your hard work going to waste, and not really benefiting you. What’s the point of putting time and effort into something if your just going to get a good grade but after it is given not getting anything else out of it.Kelsey Cruzhttp://kcruz18.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-82009694706703785442011-02-07T02:38:40.000-08:002011-02-07T02:38:40.000-08:00If I were to receive an A in this class I would be...If I were to receive an A in this class I would be very happy. After seeing an A for a grade it makes me proud that I have accomplished everything I needed to in the class and to my best potential. If I get an A, all my hard work has paid off and I realize that my professor has noticed it as well! I'm not the type of person where if I were to not receive an A I would be upset, but seeing an A definitely boosts my confidence up as a learner in my studies. Getting an A in a class can be hard and to accomplish that is a great feeling!Taylor Girouardhttp://taygirouard15.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-31182938451844419872011-02-07T08:48:18.000-08:002011-02-07T08:48:18.000-08:00Hmmm...if you gave me an A right now......First of...Hmmm...if you gave me an A right now...<br><br>...First of all, I would be relieved. This class would truly be about the experience of learning new ways to learn, new ways to teach, and new ways to just spread the chance to gain knowledge for everyone. Many classes force me to do specific tasks in order to receive a grade, and I often have to focus more on doing what they want than actually learning. In this class, receiving an A right now would mean that there really isn't a certain thing I have to do to make the cut. I would feel that if I were given an A, I better do what I can to feel like I earned it! I would work to make sure that I learned enough so that I could really say I benefitted from the class. Frankly, this class to me is about learning how to pay attention to what is happening in our world and working to adapt how I teach and learn so that I can improve my being and help others do the same. So, hearing that the professor's focus wasn't about a grade, but rather the actual learning, I'd be glad to know that I can actually try to follow that focus, since it is truly considered by all to be the point of the course.Krislynhttp://krislynh.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804741203544404650.post-28160538497703562222011-02-07T12:58:41.000-08:002011-02-07T12:58:41.000-08:00To be given an A in a class that I put an effort i...To be given an A in a class that I put an effort it, studied hard,took time to do the work...that would make me feel proud and to know I accomplished something and did it well. I have had classes before that were really easy and pretty much everyone received an A unless they just didn't do the work. In that case, I would really feel good about it. I took a math course last semester and I struggle with math a lot. I set out from the very beginnning to do the work and put the time and effort in. In the end, it was worth it and I received an A. I was so happy and releaved, I felt proud of myself. It was good to hear the Professor say to focus more on the learning rather then the grade. Like I said before, if you but in the effort and time but mainly focus on your learning, your grade will reflect that.lindsey7965noreply@blogger.com