Challenges of learning

Barbara Ganley has a great post in her blog about blogging in learning, that points to the difficult work of helping students meet adaptive challenges. As she puts it:

“…they don’t always welcome how different or challenging it is to have to learn how to negotiate new terrain. At this point in the semester, they’re irked—they want recipes, prescriptions, the five-foolproof-steps-to-writing-the-great paper-or-short-story approach. And we’ve trained them to expect no less instead of the wonderfully messy process of deep critical inquiry with its switchback trails, its box canyon dead-ends, and its sandstorms out of which we somehow must find our way.”

What a great metaphor for supporting understanding — helping people navigate the wonderfully messy journey of learning…