Infrastructure of Learning
Definition: a. A substructure, an underlying collection, of probabilities of colors, locations, sound intensities, and other observable sensations to which people will most likely respond while learning something; used by learners to adopt new behavior patterns, that is, to learn to read or manipulate numerals; indemic to learning.
b. Observable response patterns to sensations that will likely occur by learners when a person learns something.
c. The collection of sensations to which learners will likely respond as they learn; the association of sensations with content (behavior patterns) learned, such as to reciting a verse by Longfellow or LL Cool J.
d. Characteristic of learning; prevalent in identifying relevant attributes of behavior patterns to learn.
Synonyms: SUBLIMINAL LEARNING gives priority to sensations to which people respond without awareness.
Metaphore: The system of lines, dots, and other codes on a music score that represent the timing and intensity of specific sound frequencies.
Highlight: An infrastructure of learning exists in social events as essential elements (active ingredients) when learning occurs as observable behavior patterns.
Comment:
The term infrastructure of learning relates the body of results from experimental empirical behavioral science studies with the body of facts and practices commonly called education. Learners use this infrastructure constantly to learn in and out of schools. This term distinguishes the process of using these sensations from rules of grammar, music, mathematics and other content people learn to participate in daily social life.
This infrastructure highlights the physical sensations learners connect with the process of adopting new behavior patterns commonly called learning to do something, such as learning to read a book, add two numbers, recite the year of the first moon walk.