Earlier today, Obama gave a speech to America’s schoolchildren. My kid isn’t old enough for Obama’s words to be inspirational (unless Obama happens to be driving a trash truck and happily honking at toddlers while passing out balloons, bubbles, and chocolate milk), but I am. And even though Obama’s speech is geared toward children, there [...]
Posts Tagged ‘knowledge’
Let Your Experiences Teach You, Not Define You
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Obama, reflection on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The First Eight Words
Posted in Learning, Life, tagged knowledge, Learning, Life on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LEARNING: Changes a person makes in himself or herself that increase the know-why and/or the know-what and/or the know-how the person possesses with respect to a given subject. (Learning as a Way of Being, by Peter Vaill, p. 21)
Read the first eight words again: Changes a person makes in himself or herself…
I second that.
She’s Ready For What’s Next
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, education, knowledge, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Congrats to Debra Giannini!
Debra just completed her 15-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio. Debra is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Psychology and Expressive Therapies. The topics she wrote for are:
BIO 165 – Alternatives in Health and Healing
BIO 167 – Nutritional Science
CHS 354 – Environment, Culture, and Food
CCM 342 – Rhythm-Based Communication
SPP 371 – [...]
NOW She Knows!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, knowledge, PLA on June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes you don’t know what you know. You know? Well Loretta Rowe knows!
In just two terms, Loretta earned 21 Prior Learning Assessment credits, and in the process of doing so she discovered that she knew a lot more than she thought she knew. In her final Reflective Essay, Loretta shared this:
As I prepare my Final [...]
A Gift That Keeps On Giving
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Life, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ty Wells, a Business & Leadership major, just submitted his Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio totaling 27 credits. Ty’s experience resides mostly in the food and hospitality industry, and he was able to use those learning experiences to write PLA essays for the following courses:
Conflict Management
Public Presentations
Team Building
Foodservice Organizations
Management Fundamentals
Introduction to Winemaking
Foodservice Production and Principles
Small Business [...]
An Aubergine Assessment (or What I Learned In Botany Class)
Posted in Cooking, Higher Education, tagged eggplant, highereducation, knowledge on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of you who know me likely know that there is one thing in the world I do not like: EGGPLANT. Here is how my relationship with eggplant came to be so troubled.
When I was in elementary school, my mom cut off some fingers and was in the hospital for a while. Grandma came to [...]
A Visit To The Candy Shop
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Learning on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yet another goodie from Larry Daloz’s book Mentor:
EDUCATION AS CARE
The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledgling artists as graying accountants.
A [...]
Claiming Her Knowledge
Posted in Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Writing, tagged highereducation, knowledge, PLA on May 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This week, Julie Fleming, one of our Prior Learning Assessment students, turned in her final PLA Portfolio: 17 credits for college-level learning that she had gained through her experiences owning a dance school and teaching dance.
CONGRATULATIONS JULIE!
Julie’s major is Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Business, Communications, and Dance. The 17 credits fulfill her requirements [...]
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