There are many examples of being a Novice, whether starting a new job, sport, travelling, DIY project, learning to drive, that have similar experience to what Cahalan describes.\u00a0 Cahalan\u2019s thesis is transferable to many different areas.\u00a0<\/strong>Frankly, starting this Masters program draws parallels here. Setting up a blog, referencing, rereading assignment instructions, clicking on \u2018publish\u2019 and looking for any feedback. As a Novice in this program, already I have \u2018vacillated between feelings of failure and moments of exhilaration. \u2018(Cahalan & Foley, 2017, p. 12) I think I proved Cahalan correct with her description of a Novice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog post Charlie and could relate completely to what you described being a novice \u00a0feels like and your parallels to this course. \u00a0I too, ‘vacillate between feelings of failure and moments of exhilaration’ (Cahalan & Foley, 2017) both in this course and in my new position at work. I have moments of pure panic in this course when I go online and see that others have posted in a different format and question whether or not I even understood the assignment instructions. \u00a0I am definitely a novice when it comes to APA citation rules and continue to seek clarification. These feelings of uncertainty and nervousness are a good reminder to me of how some of my own students must feel when it comes to trying something new.<\/p>\n
I also loved your point (in your opening statement), where you shared that the more you read, the less you felt you knew. \u00a0I felt like that this week when I sat down to write my essay on Critical Thinking. \u00a0I found that I was just spinning in circles as I read, wrote, edited, scrapped what I wrote, read, edited and wrote and edited again and again. The process definitely made me aware that I am very much a novice on my journey.<\/p>\n
Thanks again for sharing your beautifully expressed thoughts. \u00a0They were a great reminder that learning is a process and it is perfectly acceptable to be a novice. \u00a0Being a novice, means that we aren’t afraid to start the journey and step outside of our comfort zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a response to Charlie Mable’s Read, Rank, Write Blog Post https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/2018\/05\/20\/rank-talk-write-unit-3\/ There are many examples of being a Novice, whether starting a new job, sport, travelling, DIY project, learning to drive, that have similar experience to what Cahalan describes.\u00a0 Cahalan\u2019s thesis is transferable to many different areas.\u00a0Frankly, starting this Masters program draws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-3","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}