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Discussions play an integral role in monitoring your course participation throughout the term. You should check back to the weekly discussions multiple times throughout the week to engage in the discussion with your professor and peers. Participation is only counted during the week in which this discussion is assigned. Your response must be at least 500 words and researched with at least two sources. Be sure to appropriately cite any sources you use to support your responses with standard APA citations. Answer the prompt question(s) thoroughly and following the guidelines found on your syllabus. . Your initial post is due by Friday at 11:59 pm of the current week.

Think about your learning style as a child and as an adult.  How are they similar?  How are they different?  Do you think you will continue to learn this way?  What does research say about how we learn as children compared to How we learn as adults?

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Task:  Read Chapter 2 — The Start of Your Journey:

Finding a Wondering-Complete

Passion 7 (1, 2 & 3) pg 60 and 61

Your response for weekly activities must be researched and have at least one source, other than your textbook, that you will use APA format to site at the bottom of your page. Your discussion response must be at least 1000 words in length.

**Do not include the questions from the book in your response.

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During this course, you have a weekly assignment that will be due every Tuesday by 11:59pm EST. Guidelines for each assignment will be included with the assignment on Canvas. If the assignment is a writing task, please remember to use APA format and site your sources.  Your response should be at least 1500 words.

1. Describe a learning activity you have been recently engaged in.  To what extent did the activity relate to the global context?  Did your learning involve technology? 
2. With regard to changing demographics, informally survey your immediate community for learning opportunities designed for immigrants, ELL or older adult learners. Have these opportunities increased over the last five years?  What about participation? 
3. Take any topic of interest to you. Describe the nature of the setting, the curriculum, and the instruction if this topic were explored in a formal setting, a nonformal setting or an informal setting. 
4. Take the Zinn Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory at https://www.labr.net/apps/paei/