A Honing Lesson

[carlmaloschneider]

This week I started a work related course; a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. I've been involved with training since my army days as a Recruit Instructor but I need to upgrade my qualifications. The course is largely teaching me to suck eggs (even the instructor said she didn't really know what she could teach me that I didn't already know - I audit training in my government department) but I'm trying to be 'engaged'.

A requirement of the course is to do some teaching, and today we had to choose three activities to teach. They were supposed to be work related; but I'm hardly going to teach someone to audit an education center in a prison (which is my job) so I decided to teach some practical tasks. Looking around home I was stumped about what to teach. In the end I chose loading film into a vintage box camera, loading a movie on to a 8mm movie projector, and (you guessed it) honing a straight razor.

It was interesting to do this as an actual formal lesson. I think all in my group were really interested in the whole 'vintage' feel of my lessons, and we had good discussions on what we've 'lost' in adopting new technologies.

Just wanted to share this.