20 Jan 2009

Learning only truly happens when….

The more I observe and reflect throughout my years of work experience, life experience, etc., I am convinced that true learning only occurs when on the job. Only when short term memory [classroom experiences] gets rehearsed into working memory [experiential learning / OJT] and over a period of time to build fluency [long term memory], can learning be truly said to have occurred.

Classroom, online lessons– be it facilitated or self paced – only offer information and knowledge [Bloom’s lowest level of cognitive learning]. Knowledge management – the buzzword and overhyped concept – therefore is just that. Knowledge is just a organised set of information, given some context. Knowledge is an ingredient to learning but acquiring knowledge does not equate learning.

information, knowledge or learning

Diagram is created by me for my training workshop on Learning Solutions [if you like to know more about the workshop, please send me a comment stating how I can reach you].

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Quotations:

God starts us out on a life course to fulfill a certain purpose and then, only when we are ready, He gives us course corrections. Like a good river pilot, He steers us away from troubled waters, and like a good coach, He never puts us in the game until we are ready. The journey is never boring.

REMEMBER THIS ABOUT YOU...

  Read this out loud to yourself, and mean it!!

  I am precious, valuable, lovable and capable.
  The world will not be the same without me.
  I make a difference in this world, in the community I live in.
  I can make another person smile.
  I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
  I sing for I am loved by a great God whose nature is to give  love, mercy and grace.

  [In Hindi]
  Mai amulya hoon.
  Yeh duniya mayray bina wahi nahin rahegi.
  Mayray hone say is duniya mein kuch badlav hai.
  Mujh se doosre ke chahre pay muskuraahat aati hai.
  Mujhe bhayankar se banaya gaya hai.
  Mujhe gaana hai ki ek mahaan; ishwhar mujhe pyaar karte.
  Hain aur mayray prati daya dikhaate hain.