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Month: March 2011
Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-03-21
- Just saw a HotPockets Sideshots commercial. The animated Hot Pockets looks like they are throwing up / showing their innards. Disgusting. #
- Beyond me how busy Trader Joe's is on a Sunday night. #
- Time for another typing break; this time to fold laundry from the dryer. #
- The doggies are awaiting their baths. Nice break from research. #
- Registration is open for the 2012 Threshold Concepts Conference http://bit.ly/ia44mY. Odd, since not even a call for papers yet! #phdchat #
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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-03-20
- Great, we are in yet another armed conflict that will only cost the US money and lives. #
- Time for another round of transcription #phdchat #
- Trying to get some laundry done before terrarium shopping. #
- RT @cnnbrk: Gadhafi to Obama, Sarkozy: Butt out. http://on.cnn.com/grO2Tz // with all due respect, does th… (cont) http://deck.ly/~VcG5e #
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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-03-19
- Seems everybody is outside in the city tonight; such a beautiful day. I will celebrate by sleeping a full night! #
- Information for the 2012 Threshold Concepts Symposium in Dublin from 27-29 June 2012 http://bit.ly/eoU3xm and http://bit.ly/h6D0Ky #phdchat #
- Happy to report I am finished reviewing the 5 abstracts I was assigned for the #ir12 #AoIR conference, well before they were due #phdchat #
- I just finished my taxes. Now let's hope Uncle Sam agrees with me. #
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Discussing the A-Ha! in CPsquare
Our conversation has started in the CPsquare community, where I am sharing my current doctoral studies and approaching thesis. One of the community facilitators mentioned the a-ha moment, and this reminded me how increasingly central this is to my work. Don’t you wish we could bottle and share it?
I came to my current academic program with an interest in exploring transformative learning experiences in distance learning, and while I have studied these experiences from a number of perspectives, including from the perspective of doctoral learners, it is this a-ha experience, sometimes called a conceptual threshold, threshold concept, or light bulb moment, that most interests me.
- What factors lead some people to have this a-ha, and not others?
- Is there any content or ideas that tend to have this effect on people?
- What does this experience feel like?
- What support helps sustain people through this?
- What ethical issues arise, especially when this experience may be encouraged by a faculty member or researcher?
These are some of those questions that inspire me, as they all lead to the pinnacle, IMHO, of the central questions in education — What did you learn and what will you do with it?