What is an Infrastructure of Learning and Why Should I Care?
An infrastructure of learning (AIL) is the name given to the use, the application, of a learners’ view.
AIL refers to descriptions of patterns of behavior that observers can see, hear, and in other ways sense as someone learns to do something. These patterns consist of the essential varieties of behavior common to learning, whether it’s called discovery learning, one-step learning, or by some other label.
AIL refers to using, applying, those descriptions in lessons in order to accelerate and increase learning.
AIL appears inseparable from learning.
People and our machines have no other way to identify learning than to observe changes in behavior patterns. Machines may show various patterns of brain activity, but only changes in behavior patterns give meaning to support claims that brain activity represents the process of learning.
You should care and use an infrastructure of learning only if you want someone to learn to do what you show or tell them to do in a lesson.
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(T-Shirt Wisdom) Failed lessons result from failing to use an infrastructure of learning (AIL) in those lessons.