Carrier of Learning (COL)

Carrier of Learning (COL)

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Main Page: Terms that Describe the Vocabulary of Learning and their Uses

Theme: The fillers, padding, and pointers in lessons.

Fillers, Padding, and Pointers in Lessons

Definition: 1. a Part of instructing a lesson that supports or conveys attention of learners to active ingredients of learning (AIL) that lesson. For example, a teacher talks and moves during a lesson from which learners find and extract the AIL in order to answer the generic question of the lesson, such as What is it? or to Say, PEN. b The part of a lesson that does not by itself lead directly to learning that lesson. c The speech pattern, voice tone, physical movements, dramatics, motivation, passion, and other personal attributes an instructor may use to maintain attention of learners during a lesson. d Filler, padding of lessons, as bubble wrap in packing boxes occupies spaces not occupied by the object(s) packed.

2. Ingredients of instruction, such as sounds, motions, and smells, that do not result in learners learning each lesson. For example, preparing test tubes for use in an experiment during a chemistry class does not directly lead to learners conducting that experiment.

3. Familiar, known parts of lessons used to direct attention to the active ingredients of learning (AIL).

4. (Technical) a Includes use of principles of learning to lead to the objective of the lesson. b Sum of social activity of a lesson minus the active ingredients of learning equals the COLS (carriers of learning) of the lesson.

Synonyms: NARRATIVES, including ILLUSTRATIONS, METAPHORES, AND SYNONYMS (NIMS)  ABOUT the subject being instructed. THE DRAMA part of the 1988 feature film Stand and Deliver about Jaime Escalante teaching high school AP Calculus in East Los Angeles.

Antonyms: DESCRIPTIONS OF steps for learners to take in order to solve the problem (reach the objective, meet criterion) of the lesson. 20 SECOND LESSON refers to economical instruction reduced to active ingredients of learning without fillers. FRUGAL LESSON refers to simple, plain, economical lessons with few, if any carriers, that cost few resources for learners to learn.

Comment: Carriers occur during most lessons, whether instructed through symbols (as in reading and mathematics), virtual reality, or real presence. The most efficient lessons, those learners will most likely learn (meet criterion for learning) include few to no carriers. Ideally, each part of a lesson has a use, interspersed with few, if any fillers or carriers. James Michener (2007) refers to the easy reading parts of a narrative (story) as carriers. The easy reading parts correspond to carriers in lessons.

References

  1. Active Ingredient of Learning (AIL)
  2. Frugal Teacher
  3. Learning
  4. Learning as Problem Solving
  5. Lesson
  6. Michener, J. (2007). The World Is My Home: A Memoir. NY: Random House Trade Paperback Publication.
  7. Principles of Learning
  8. Stand and Deliver (1988)

Related Reading

  1. Choices Frame an Infrastructure of Learning
  2. Law of Teaching-Learning (LOTL)

Last Edited: January 11, 2016