What I've Learned After Weeks of Participating in #lrnchat on Twitter

*CW: mentions of the COVID-19 pandemic*
I've missed a few weeks here and there, but for the most part I have been participating in the #lrnchat on Twitter over the course of this semester. When we were first introduced to it by Dr. Dennen in the first week of school, I initially thought that it was going to about instructional design, educational technology, or the like. However, it has turned out to be much more of an ongoing conversation about meta learning. I was a bit taken aback at first, but I have become more comfortable with it and I feel like I'm starting to develop a community of sorts through my conversations within that chat.

This week, we went into depth on our views of self-awareness and how to learn it. A few weeks ago, we discussed how and why we change our beliefs. These discourses have been helpful for me in more closely examining readings and experiences both in this class and in my full-time job and relating them back to how I want to approach teaching once I (hopefully) become a professor one day. To make a longer story short, what I've learned from my participation within the #lrnchat on Thursdays is that I need to have a solid, overarching philosophy of how I view education in general and higher education specifically in order to be a successful instructor and relate to my students. The #lrnchat account is also doing a Book Bingo that they started a few weeks ago, which I will be participating in to keep my mind occupied while Florida gets slammed with growing COVID-19 cases, keeping us responsible Floridians inside. (Seriously, just wear a mask, people-who-might-be-reading-this-who-refuse-to-wear-masks. It's not going against your personal freedoms, it's just not. You're ruining it for everyone else.)

Here is a link to the #lrnchat account. If you have a Twitter account, I hope to see you participating in the conversation next week! It takes place every Thursday from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST. Let me know what you think of it!

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