After reading Sandy's blog I started thinking; up until this point I was not really concerned about returning to university having being out of higher education for about 5 years. It was just something I had to do, I want to be an art teacher, I need a degree to do that so I have to go back and finish it. Seamed quite straight forward, it was only when I read some of the other student’s blogs and started to go through the readers that I realised, not that my brain had gotten lazy but that I would need to retrain my brain to look at things in a more critical way. I have become very use to reading something and just accepting it as right. In his blog Sandy talked about his previous university experience and how web 2.0 has changed the way in which students learn, implying that in the past students were spoon fed information which resulted in stinting creative thinking. I don’t completely agree with this, at Central St Martins I was definitely not spoon fed but I was much more isolated then I will be on this course. We had lectures and seminars where we could discuss our project ideas and essays with our peers but essentially when it came down to the written work you were on your own with your ideas and your notes. The only feedback you got was in tutorials after the piece of work had been marked. So I am really looking forward to hearing what people think of my theories and ideas as I have them. Especially seeing as often I can go off on some pretty obscure tangents. It will be nice to have people around to tell me I am doing this and put me back on track.
Like Sandy I am also worried about fitting everything in, I love my job and thus find myself doing extra research in my free on projects that the children are doing in school. I don’t want to stop doing this because I think it is important to give the children as many different ways to approach a project as possible; otherwise we will just end up with 20 very similar outcomes, but I don’t want this to monopolise my time, and fall behind with my course. I think some very careful time management will be needed.
Hi Stephie! I agree with how you feel, I am loaded with gigs until Christmas, not to mention the hours of research and rehearsal involved! I assume your work is very time consuming. Don't worry though, we'll all get through together I'm sure!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Alana, thanks for that, I think what I'm going to try and do is just do a little every day and try not to fall behind. Hope all your gigs go well.
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