Week 1: 7 1/2 Learning Habits

Hi everyone! Michael Sullivan here. I am looking forward to our journey along Leaning 2.0. From this week’s lesson "7 ½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners". The learning habit that I think is the most difficult to apply to Learning 2.0 is Habit 1 "Begin with the end in mind." While I certainly do engage in learning activities with an end in mind, most of my learning activities are simply exploratory in nature with no set end or goal. Learning 2.0, with it’s discovery exercises to help us become familiar with blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites, also strikes me as more exploratory than goal orientated. Habit 2 "Accept responsibility for your own learning" is perhaps the easiest for me to apply. I enjoy learning and constantly seek out opportunities to learn new skills or knowledge. Sometimes I learn for professional growth, such as with Learning 2.0, but mostly I seek learning opportunities for my own personal stimulation.