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Learners Distinguish How to from What They Learn

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A Learners’ View (ALV) is the Straightest and Fastest Path with the Least Number of Steps to Learning, the Oxygen Of Social Life.

Favorite Lesson

Choose and analyze your favorite lesson that comes closest to everyone in class learning everything you teach in it.

Rate this lesson on a 1 to 10 scale with 10 being a 1.0 lesson where everyone in class consistently learns everything taught.

How do you apply principles of learning that learners use to learn?

Analyze this lesson further, so you can choose what to continue doing and what to adjust for it to earn a higher rating. (a) What do learners learn? (b) What do you do so they learn it? (c) How do you know they learn it? (d) What evidence do you have that they learn it? (e) What difference does it make that they learn it? In other words, why is this lesson worth their time and use of their personal resources to complete this lesson?

Distinguish (a) between the sights, sounds, and other sensations to which learners will likely attend, (b) how you match what you do and say with what learners will likely do, and (c) the sequence of tasks you present for learners to use to complete this lesson successfully.

How does this lesson answer learners’ questions: What do I have to do to learn this lesson? What will learning it cost me in time, effort, etc.? What do I get for learning it?

Is it a 20 second lesson? A string of 20 second lessons as modules that make up your favorite?

Do you ad lib (maybe you call it extemporize, or “going with the flow”) the lesson or follow a written plan? (In formal organizations, including schools, whatever “it” is doesn’t exist unless it is in writing, or maybe in another record, so if it’s in neither, it’s ad libbed.)

How do you guard against this lesson rationing learning?

In light of this quick analysis, identify the most important thing you will do differently to make learning more efficient (learners will use fewer trial-and-errors, consume less clock time, etc.) next time you offer this lesson.

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