MACHS

COMMON GROUND CONFERENCE

WORKSHOP: F8 - Life Long Learning

Presenters: Dr Darryl Dymock

Facilitator: Colin Burns

Scribe: Colin Burns

Life Long Learning as a cradle to the grave process involves the continuous development, acquisition, and appreciation of knowledge, skills, values, and wisdom across the life span. It is necessary for improving all aspects of our lives as it addresses issues related to personal fulfilment, social development and economic prosperity. This workshop will interactively explore a range of strategies that a community can use to develop a real commitment to the principles of life long learning.

• Overview of lifelong learning as a commitment to development
• Skills needed to recognise and develop the processes for lifelong learning
• Categorising learning styles through group participation exercises,

Visual auditory and tactile exercises,

• What life skills do you need to embrace:
• Persistence in developing various skills of reading, writing, problem resolving,
• A firm belief and motivation in yourself to achieve personal goals,
• Recognising and developing your own preferred learning style that matches your ability with current understanding of topics or subject matter,
• Confident ability in knowing that you can succeed even if this takes longer than might otherwise be expected,
• What the community needs to embrace:

• Developing a learning community that encourages adult learning principles,
• Learning to know how to achieve this in a supportive yet constructive manner,
• Learning to actually do things together,
• Learning to live together respecting others learning, culture, and life styles.
• Institutions are not the only way that learning takes place in our society

• Learn to live to together more effectively,
• Develop learning communities as opposed to geographical locations,
• This type of conference format has potential to become a learning community
• Develop Human Capital / Social Capital
• Recognise prior learning as an asset we all inherently have,