Tuesday, November 06, 2012
"How would different beliefs about learning affect our practice? What is the prevailing belief in your own work culture? In thinking of my own past and present workplaces, and the types of instruction I’ve most often been asked to build or facilitate, the belief seems most often to be that learning happens as people acquire discrete pieces of data—which we hope they’ll apply as needed. This in turn affects the way in which the instruction attempts to tap into prior learning and tie to other, related pieces of instruction."
For the full article, see: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1054/nuts-and-bolts-metaphors
The Pinterest board referenced in the article is at http://pinterest.com/janebozarth/learning-teaching-metaphors/