It’s conventional wisdom that “the best way to learn something is to teach it,” but at least one study suggests that the mere expectation of teaching may be enough to boost learning significantly. The study […]
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It’s been years since Malcolm Knowles, considered by many to be the “father of adult learning,” articulated a set of six adult learning principles – “assumptions,” as he put it, about how adults tend to
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The “why” of self-directed learning is survival—your own survival as an individual, and also the survival of the human race. Clearly, we are not talking here about something that would be nice or desirable….We are
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Are you a free range learner? If you are reading this post, then chances are pretty high that you are. You probably like to read. You are probably constantly consuming content from a variety of
What’s It Take to Be an Effective Free Range Learner? Continue Reading »
It’s a tragic fact that most of us know only how to be taught; we haven’t learned how to learn. – Malcolm Knowles I’ve been writing about various aspects of self-directed learning for years here
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For years my wife and I have dutifully put money into our kids’s 529 college savings accounts. Our assumptions, of course, are that (a) a college education is valuable, (b) everyone needs one, and (c) it
“Repetition is the mother of learning” was a phrase often repeated back in my days of learning and teaching Russian. I believe it is true, particularly for learning a language. It is also true that
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