Another week, and another feeling of triumph for accomplishing something intangible, like conceptualizing the mechanics of this class. In Piaget's theory of formal operation stage, he explains that as we mature into adulthood, we develop abstract thinking. Abstract thinking is a level of thinking about things that is removed from the facts of the “here and now”, and from specific examples of the things or concepts being thought about. Abstract thinkers are able to reflect on events and ideas, and on attributes and relationships separate from the objects that have those attributes or share those relationships. (Project Learnet.org)
Doesn't it sound like this class?
Here we all are, higher learners struggling but persevering to master this abstract concept of on-line, distance learning. All the little parts that we do will eventually form part of a beautiful picture--like the abstract painting attached. I see myself in this painting walking the distance on a slick, lonely sidewalk, almost done.
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