A wise person can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. ~Bruce Lee
Tip #5/5 for Making Learning Stick: Unleash your learners!
The fifth tip in our series on Making Learning Stick presents new ways of doing things that upend the hierarchy in your relationship with your learners . Are you up for the challenge of training that way?
Friday Food for Thought 6/23/17
"They say nothing can be done here. I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'" ~Dorothea Dix, American activist 1802-1887
Tip #4 for Making Learning Stick: Do the tell-show-do
I'd do the hokey pokey if it would help people learn better. Thankfully that's not necessary, but doing the Tell-Show-Do does help.
Friday Food for Thought 6/16/17
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Tip #3 for Making Learning Stick: Provide interaction
Moving on to tip #3 , we arrive at: Provide interaction to increase capability. How do you "do" capability?
Friday Food for Thought 6/9/17
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill
Tip #2 for Making Learning Stick: Appeal to a variety of styles
What is true about style and how it influences whether learning sticks?
Tip #1 for Making Learning Stick: Take care of basic needs
Brain science tells us that we learn better when we feel safe and when our basic needs are attended to. How does this translate to adult education settings?
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