Two blog posts last week from Seth Godin resonated with me. The first explains how there are facts and they underpin everything; you have preference and tastes but they need to be in conjunction with basic facts. The second highlights how people like to watch to learn. As Godin rightly points out: …there are two… Read More Learning tastes
I saw this excellent quote the other day: We used the word producer to describe the student who was only interested in getting right answers, and who made more or less uncritical use of rules and formulae to get them; we called thinker the student who tried to think about the meaning, the reality, of whatever it was he… Read More Producers vs Thinkers
I pinged a post out yesterday about learning styles and, like many of my rants, this one prompted lots of discussion. As I said in my reply to the original post about the topic, if you are able to create a real-world learning intervention that takes learning styles into account – and proves that such… Read More Prod it
And Learning Styles. In your learning sessions people will be Googling your references to check your version of the truth. They’ll check the evidence of your assumptions to make sure that you’re data led. They will look up comments online about your models and suppositions to check your insights are accurate. If your learning function… Read More Lies, Damned Lies,