And thus begins my entrance into the blog world via the master's program through Touro University. It was asked of me to create my first post so here goes...
When I think about what I am passionate about when it comes to learning, I keep coming back to my deep need to just keep learning. Learn everything I can about anything I can. I didn't used to enjoy it so much. In fact, I was bored through most of my school years and only went to college when my mother urged me to do it. I continued this trend by choosing a major based on the easiest thing I thought I could choose to get my degree in and the quickest which was photography (shameless plug for the above picture being mine). It didn't go well. It wasn't until I had dropped out and found that I couldn't go more than a semester without being in at least one class to help grow my mind. I got back in and suddenly discovered all of these classes that held my interest. I was engrossed in the glossed over parts of US history and how to carbon date fossils and how surveys are used and abused to show and skew data. I found myself unable to get enough. I feel the same when it comes to technology. I want to learn how to do it all. I do my best to look up anything and everything I can when learning a new tech toy or digital program. This deep love of learning is what I want to help foster in my students. I want them to feel the same urge I do to research and find all sides of the stories and to think critically about everything they come across in order to become adults who are informed and care about the world around them. I want to build a sense of empathy inside of them to help bring more kindness into the world. I can only hope that some of what I teach them sticks with them and they continue to grow and change into the adults I know they all can be.
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