The beauty of unfinished work - The Learner's Way - 34 views
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anonymous on 28 Jul 15I love this concept! The focus is on the process of learning. Doesn't that also help to identify the way we learn as well as the progress of the learning?
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The down side of this is that there also has to be some sort of focus on the importance of completing what is started. Everything might not have to have an end product but some things certainly should have!
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At times it has been deeply admonished and hidden from view. Individuals who failed were to be shunned or punished. At other times failure was to be avoided by setting the bar for success so low that failure was impossible. The result of this movement was that success became meaningless, achievable by all without risk and through little effort.
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The generation when who were deeply admonished and hidden is older and most are relieved that this is no longer the case. The generation who were shunned or punished seem to still be a part of the mainstream but most have embraced that this is no longer the case. The generation who were part of the low expectations with failure impossible seem to be the predominance of the population now and we are seeing that there is no concept of consequences, no motivation toward high achievement, and an attitude of entitlement.
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This seems like we are evolving but moving more in a cyclical fashion and thinking more like the early innovators in our country - Jefferson, Franklin, Ford, Bell - We see a need for something and strive to create it - marking our failures as a way of knowing, "well that won't work so lets find something that will."
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A culture that accepts failure as a part of the learning process will need to take time to celebrate the steps taken towards learning as much as it celebrates the finished product.
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A digital work of art, of music of writing is never truly finished, it grows and transforms over time.
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Transformation from the mindset of this is done, this if finished, this is the final draft to here is where we are at this point but it may be revisited, revised, refined at a later time.
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mistakes are a sign that the learning is not pitched at a level below the needs of the students; if the students are not making mistakes when they engage with new learning the expectation has been set too low.
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What must be avoided is a belief that mistakes are to be accepted without an equal emphasis on identifying and understanding their causes.
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Identify and understand the causes of mistakes so that another attempt can be made at correcting them and progress is made!
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There is a danger in seeking finished perfection in all that we do. There is a risk that our students will focus solely on the attributes that define a finished piece and overlook the importance of the process that leads to it.
