Lessons as Problem Solving

A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

Lessons show learners how to solve 3D puzzles.

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EACH ALV LESSON consists of showing or telling learners how to solve one or more of five generic problems reduced to two dots. A complex problem consist of a series (chain) of simple problems of two dots each linked in a sequence of dots that solves each problem.

Each problem has its own set of dots and connections, as does a map of City One have different dots from a map of City Two.

Each dot of a lesson consists of elements and principles of learning expressed as a vocabulary word or phrase or manipulation required by the subject (mathematics, chemistry, reading, etc.) being taught. This is the way 1.0 lessons used by 1.0 teachers appear in a lesson plan.

Each ALV lesson gives priority to observable behavior patterns, such as words and other symbols, learners use while learning to connect the dots. Thus, each dot is something learners will likely sense, whether by sight, sound, touch, haptic action, etc. Instruction shows, tells, etc. learners how to connect each set of two dots.

These lessons give lower priority to other views, such conventional wisdom that a lesson fills a class period with talk, student response, and other such practices found and encouraged in U.S. public schools for the past four or so decades.

Each ALV lesson is built (composed might be a better word) by connecting elements and principles of learning in the first dot with those in the second dot along the ALV Path, an infrastructure of learning,

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Last Edited: August 6, 2015