5.(ii) Title & Summary

Learning to Learn:

A Journey through my PreCapstone year with GaiaU

Liam McDermott

January 13th, 2014

Pre-capstone Master's Degree

This learning review documents the key learning that I have gained since my enrollment in GaiaU in September of 2013.  First and foremost, it discusses Liam as both a learner and my views on epistemology and how we learn.    It spends quite a bit of time looking at the myriad un/learnings during my precapstone experience.  In addition to summarizing my Output Packets and reviewing key learning from the LIPD perspective, I overlay many filters upon my precapstone year including the 5 Ps, Permaculture Principles, Liam as Learner Designer & Leader.  There are many wonderful tools that Gaia has offered me this year that I utilize in this output to demonstrate my learning and the lens they yield on "how I learn." The purpose of this OP is to document and sharpen my skills as an action learner.  I have undertaken the assignment to reflect on this year of my studies and life as an opportunity to talk about designing a website that can accomplish this goal.  I wish to incorporate key aspects of Gaia's learning methodology: time management, design, goals articulation as fundamental to the presentation of the OP and Liam as a learner.

I also  weave the creation of my website as a synchronous event with the learnings that I am engaging in.  Certainly my Digital Literacy is growing.  Presenting myself through portfolio seems key. Consequently, I stacked this learning review to include presenting myself as both a learner and a worldchanger that offers services and products that will help create resilient communities and a better future.   I am grateful that this Learning Review inspired me to present myself and my learnings through the web.