Quotes About Learning

All through school, we are shown that making a mistake is a bad thing, something for which we are downgraded. This reveals how little conventional schools are interested in learning, because we never learn by doing something right; we already know how to do it. Doing it right does confirm what we already know, and this has some value, but it contributes nothing to learning. We

Exams do not assess anything significant to the future of children, because no one knows how to assess or measure the key factors to the future success of any person, child or adult. They are a closed system; tests exist for their own sake. They measure the ability of the entire school community—children, parents, teachers, administrators—to focus all their efforts on producing good results on tests! Nothing more, nothing less. To

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world.

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some of the books I didn't understand- but I read them just the same. I believed, you see, that my life work would be teaching, so I wanted to learning everything I could about every possible subject.

Worked examples are illustrations of how to complete a task—either a step-by-step procedural task or a more strategic task that involves critical thinking or problem solving.

Worked examples allow your learners to borrow knowledge. By studying worked examples, learners can emulate how others perform a task.

Pilot test your training to determine an optimal amount of practice to reach acceptable job competence. As you plan your practice activities, find ways to spread them over a lesson or course. Spaced practice results in better long-term learning with a high effect size of 0.71.

A recurrent theme through many chapters is: Keep it simple. Whether it comes to visuals, stories, or technology, remember that often less is more.

However, imagine that instead of working a problem, you are reviewing an example. Your working memory is free to carefully study the example and learn from it. In fact, by providing an example as a model, the student has an opportunity to build their own mental model from it. In other words, the example is a vehicle to enable borrowing knowledge acquired by others.

This new edition of the book adds coverage of exciting new research—particularly on animation and video—that has appeared since the previous edition was published in 2003. This new edition also expands coverage of graphics using new media such as mobile learning and virtual worlds. You will also find that this new edition is more concise and visually appealing than the previous edition; yet it retains the same basic structure and message.

Learning games are instructional environments that are entertaining enough to motivate play and educational enough to promote learning goals.

Variously called productive failure, invention learning, or desirable difficulties, the proposed benefits of starting with a problem include: • activating prior knowledge related to new skills • combating student perceptions that the content is easy to learn • creating a moment of need, making students more receptive to explanations.

Examples Guideline 4 Encourage engagement with examples by asking questions or assigning comparisons of worked examples.

To qualify as practice, the learner must make some kind of behavioral response. For the purposes of formal training, that response usually generates a visible product—one that can be evaluated by the instructional environment.

Scenario-based learning, also called problem-based, exploratory, or immersive learning is a popular approach. Scenario-based learning is a preplanned, guided inductive learning environment designed to accelerate expertise.

the injection of personal opinion or reactions to content has been shown to improve learning. For example, an instructor might present two views on an issue and reveal their own personal opinion. Mayer (2009) refers to self-revealing episodes as a "visible author" technique and has found that learning improved with the use of a "visible author.

Whether writing for a text book, for e-learning, or for lecture notes for an instructor-led class, you can improve learning by thinking of yourself as a "learning host." A good host makes guests feel comfortable and engages them in the event.

The agent that exhibited human social behaviors such as gestures and changes in facial expressions promoted best learning. The static agent actually led to less learning than no agent. Perhaps the static agent became a distracting screen element?

our brains are designed for best learning when less loaded.

content "covered" does not necessarily translate into new and desirable behaviors on the job.