…some thoughts on my learning and my online learning.
Online learning and learning styles. My professional life, as a creative, as a teacher, as a therapist is based on, in and around movement. Movement has always been a part of my life from an early age. I’m an 80’s child, when education didn’t quite understand the hyperactive child or the distracted child, who’s learning style was not understood. I managed, I masked and I achieved, but my “savour” so to speak was through dance, and how this lead me to build a career based on movement. I learn through movement. I am not alone in this. There are many ways of learning, but I feel I am ‘here’ on the PG cert to think about how I, (in someways), represent the learners who absorb information experientially through moving and through doing, alongside with other creative styles.
So, online learning, sat down (all be it on my ball) is a challenge. Miro, I find to evoke panic in me. The sensations in my body speed up, my heart rate increases, my breath shortens and I panic. I can’t move the cursor, all these colours and post it’s are moving and everyone is going quicker than me, like flight trackers their arrows are speeding along the page mapping different flight paths as they move and write their reflections, and every one… can… see….. Oh god, they can see my cursor isn’t moving. Shit. I’ll just move my curser so it looks like I am keeping up….. …..and suddenly I am plunged back to primary school where my thoughts went at 100miles an hour and I lost the thread of what the teacher said, and I feel lost, and I’m just waiting for the teacher to say “are you even listening at all Catherine”.
I breath.
I bounce on my ball,
I ground my feet, and I come back to my body. I say to my self: That’s ok. Bounce away. Stretch, come back to your breath. Observe and take your time.
Then I start with just 1 post it. 1 is enough.