Introduction, week 1
1. Getting Started I am way behind in my reading for this course, so writing anything on this blog has not made sense until now. Since I still have some catching up to do, in this entry, I will just comment and reflect on the texts and videos that appeared in the first few weeks of the course. To begin with, I am not really sure what I have signed up for. This does not worry me too much, per se. Studies of students with advanced reading skills, for example, show that students who read a lot do not worry when a texts does not immediately make sense. Instead, they trust that they will eventually figure it out. In other words, they trust their own ability to make sense out of chaos and they trust that the chaos is illusory. Experience tells them it will probably be ok. So that is where I am. In the chaos, trusting that things will eventually begin to make sense. But I am apprehensive. Reading the suggested blogposts by Kay Oddone I find myself increasingly qu...