Week One - O! What A Geek
7.5 Habits of Life Long Learners
I think it is essential to be a life-long learner. The easiest habit by far is accepting responsibility for my own learning. I have always looked for opportunities to expand and learn. The hardest habit is using technology to my advantage - - I feel like a lot of the technologies require login names and passwords and some require numbers, letters, characters, but only 9 or 8 or 4, some in caps, etc., and that has always been frustrating when I can't remember! HOWEVER, I have found that with Delicious, a new technology, I now have a way to bookmark all my web based sites and to keep notes for my accounts and passwords (encrypted to give me enough hint to get in). I am also on the verge of a real cell phone - I have a Trac phone which I only use about 500 minutes a year and keep off except when I'm traveling - but I am reluctant to be tied to a technology and to be "findable" 24/7. I like quiet and silence in my life. I will proceed to keep learning, and I know that technology is only going to be a bigger part of all of our lives unless we live on a remote island, and even then, maybe not!
I think it is essential to be a life-long learner. The easiest habit by far is accepting responsibility for my own learning. I have always looked for opportunities to expand and learn. The hardest habit is using technology to my advantage - - I feel like a lot of the technologies require login names and passwords and some require numbers, letters, characters, but only 9 or 8 or 4, some in caps, etc., and that has always been frustrating when I can't remember! HOWEVER, I have found that with Delicious, a new technology, I now have a way to bookmark all my web based sites and to keep notes for my accounts and passwords (encrypted to give me enough hint to get in). I am also on the verge of a real cell phone - I have a Trac phone which I only use about 500 minutes a year and keep off except when I'm traveling - but I am reluctant to be tied to a technology and to be "findable" 24/7. I like quiet and silence in my life. I will proceed to keep learning, and I know that technology is only going to be a bigger part of all of our lives unless we live on a remote island, and even then, maybe not!
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