{"id":145,"date":"2017-11-05T21:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/?p=145"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T05:31:16","slug":"response-to-unit-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/2017\/11\/05\/response-to-unit-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to unit 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is in response to Sadie Thompson&#8217;s post<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cOBzVU4veb\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sadiethompson\/2017\/11\/04\/unit-6-learning-activity-1\/\">Unit 6, Learning Activity 1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sadiethompson\/2017\/11\/04\/unit-6-learning-activity-1\/embed\/#?secret=cOBzVU4veb\" data-secret=\"cOBzVU4veb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Unit 6, Learning Activity 1&#8221; &#8212; Sadie Thompson\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is very interesting to me that how she feels about her high school and university education is similar to my thoughts. I clearly was an externally motivated student until recently. Reading her post made me wonder if I knew back then that whatever I was learning would be applicable later in some form or the other, I might have accepted it differently .<\/p>\n<p>I do find a certain contradiction in Knowles&#8217; last 2 principles- &#8216;adults are mostly driven by internal motivation, rather than external motivators&#8217; and &#8216;adults need to know the reason for learning something&#8217;. If all we as adults need to learn is the internal motivation, then why does there even have to be a reason for us to learn something new? I have tried to find the answer to this in my personal choice of reading- I have noticed that any reading I have\u00a0 to do for work ( journal articles etc.) , is externally motivated. I read them because I need to know the latest advances in my filed. This is similar to Sadie&#8217;s example of learning more about to teach a child with Down&#8217;s syndrome once she knew she would have the opportunity to teach such a child. Would she have been motivated to read if there wasn&#8217;t this external motivator ? On the other hand my non medicine related reading is not externally motivated. I recently picked up a book titled &#8216;Red\u00a0 Notice&#8217;, by Bill Browder. This book is about an American-British investor and his experiences in Russia. This was an internally motivated choice, as there was no reason for me to read this book. I was intrigued by the synopsis and wanted to learn about a foreigner&#8217;s experience in Russia. This phenomenon to me is quite interesting , I hope to hear from some of my other co-learners what they think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is in response to Sadie Thompson&#8217;s post Unit 6, Learning Activity 1 It is very interesting to me that how she feels about her high school and university education is similar to my thoughts. I clearly was an externally motivated student until recently. Reading her post made me wonder if I knew back then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-6","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9i0gL-2l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}