I appreciate when there鈥檚 a prompt on something I can relate a lot to. It means then that I鈥檒l have liberty to rant and yap on the subject matter as I鈥檓 known to do time and again. This weeks prompt by the Digital Lifestyle Community, spoke to me ten seconds in, so let鈥檚 get right into it.
Would you take online courses instead or rather have someone take you one-on-one in a physical space, for example? Perhaps you could share about where you take online courses. Note, it鈥檚 your experiences we鈥檙e interested in, so let鈥檚 have them!
I don鈥檛 think it鈥檒l be quite possible to talk about this without beginning with the school space. I鈥檝e never experienced home schooling, so I do not have much to say on the subject, but when it comes to physical learning within the conventional four walls of school, I think I have quite a lot to say.
And I would start by saying that my attraction to physical school has always and may always be the people. The students. The interaction. The community. When people hear me say that I love school, and would catch me unintentionally arriving to school hours before class, they鈥檇 call me a goody two shoes, first-class striver. Like, it鈥檚 a bad thing. and Miss Do Too Much.
Obviously, me trying to explain that it鈥檚 not cause I鈥檓 eager to learn with the lecturers will be giving you go explain tire, so I don鈥檛 bother. And by the way, who also said that being eager to learn and looking forward to lecturers droning on a subject, is a bad thing?
But yeah, the former has always been the case for me I love the people. They don鈥檛 even have to like me. But seeing them, and not even necessarily interacting, is enough to make me love school. I鈥檓 already changing that narrative, though. I must love going to school because I love to learn by force. But, that鈥檚 another story, lol.
For as long as I could remember, however, the idea of virtual learning has appealed to me. Maybe because the few online classes I鈥檝e had beginning with Google Classroom, Course era, ALX, and the rest, all had amazing User Interfaces that were stimulating and just made me eager to keep learning and advancing from one module to the other.
I guess I may classify myself somewhat as a visual learner, after all. The aesthetic of the virtual UI deeply appeals to me. I remember when I took a VA Course towards the end of last year. Half of the time, what kept me going was the opportunity to enter into The Portal, as they called it, and moving into the next level because each module has submodules that were easy to assimilate and pleasing enough to sustain interest.
My interest in school, which is largely to interact with people doesn鈥檛 fly here, because I鈥檓 not the best at virtual interactions. Physical interactions just do it for me. But when it comes to learning? I think I鈥檒l have to pick virtual learning over physical anytime and any day.
I think that鈥檚 about it. We鈥檙e in a digital world that makes virtual learning easier and more effective by the day. So, I stay virtual for the learning and physical for the people.
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