…and also aid your teachers with their tasks. Due to the fact that there is about 900 other students participating within this course and our lecturer attempting to link all our names constantly, it apparently got rather.. stressful. Therefore we are now required to post about the writing of others, which isn’t too bad cause now I can see the ideas that others have posted on here!!! :3 :3

Carli talked about the idea that ‘Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience’ which basically means that we learn through experiences rather than just “passively” learning. Once upon a time when I studied psychology, I did discover that certain actions and can only be taught through experience and repetition rather than just looking at the theories.

Monique mentioned the VCE scaling system that we have and how much it determines success. She argues (to which I completely agree) the reason why VCE is so strongly associated with “success” when it was been scaled in reference to other scores within the system. This argument resonates strongly within me as a student who has just come from the VCE system, I can honestly vouch that VCE and ATAR testing is not a direct result or measurement of intelligence. It’s just how well you play the VCE game.

Maddison reiterates the analogy within the Symposium for week 5:
 If your tyre goes flat, and you jack up your car and replace it, you are not instantly a professional mechanic. Highly trained engineers were the ones who designed the mechanics behind those steps and made it oh-so-simple for you. Without them, you would have been in struggle town. 

This is in regards to being network literate, I am tech savvy and I always have been. Within the household if there are any issues with any of the computers my parents always come to me before anyone else, they literally think I am a tec god or something. But that doesn’t mean I am, they simply view me as one because they don’t know anything at all about the internet or networking.