It sometimes seems a bit simplistic to talk about fundamentally important “stuff” such as learning…in less than theoretically detailed terminology. “Learning and Doing” couldn’t possibly be an essential starting point for education revolution ongoing, could it?
The thing about having the audacity and desperation to “start over from the ground up” is that one does start with huge overarching concepts, and asks questions like “What is learning?”. Questions that we already assume we have the answer to, and of course, that’s the problem isn’t it…that we don’t necessarily know the answers to the big questions in “education”.
Maybe even the word “education” should go, and be replaced by something more along the lines of Learnification… ? Because what is often fatally overlooked is the core importance of Doing in learning… we’ve seen the infographics about how “doing” is the by far best way to actually retain learning… what do we make of that fact anyway?
Here’s a quote from an upcoming webinar… by Jane Bozarth eLearning director for state of North Carolina.
Session Description
When you ask, “What does learning look like?” no one answers, “Someone talking in front of a room.” We learn by doing, and by telling what we’re doing, and by watching others do things, and by showing others how we did something. Narrating work can solve so many problems for organizations, from capturing tacit knowledge, to easing transitions when workers depart, to further enabling informal and social learning. What does it look like, and how can Training & Development (T&D) help it happen?