Kerri-Anne found the first symposium confusing and disheartening (on the other hand Kenton had the opposite experience, neither is right or wrong of course, and it becomes valuable to realise the diversity of views and experiences, and to learn quickly that it doesn’t follow that your experience, whether positive, negative, neutral, is everyone else’s). It was all over the place, wasn’t it? IN relation to videoblogging, different problem, I’m the first or second person in the world (apparently) to have started a video blog, and what is done these days is not what I think of as video blogging. But that’s for another time. Stephanie links post industrial media with stuff from cinema studies (well done), and in spite of Kerri-Anne’s anxiety, the aim of what we’re teaching is to make you change agents in media, so you can manage, initiate, direct what is happening, rather than having a technical skill set that, like Ford, Holden, high end factory workers, has a rapidly approaching use by date.

Max, meanwhile, can see the relation between know how versus know what and VCE, high school, and a lot of what is mistakenly described as learning. Giorgia, meanwhile, picks up some similar points, noting that the ‘how’ of information is important. Michael left confused (fair enough), which personally is good – I think if you’re confused then it is a small step to wonder, and wonder is the key engine for real learning. My job, lets be clear, is not to tell, but to wonder, to model it, invite it, do it, and provide fuel for you to do it too.