Algorithms of Teaching-Learning
A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.
This site is about the science of teaching-learning as social processes and its use to accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning.
Main Page: Glossary: Terms that Describe Principles of Learning and their Uses
Theme: From a learners’ view (ALV), the social processes of teaching-learning by definition consist of a collection of algorithms.
Definition: 1. a Instructions 1.0 Teachers choose that solve the problem of how to accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning of all students through lessons. b Steps teachers use that accurately and precisely match choices learners will probably make while learning. c The patterns of planning and instructing lessons that learners learn, for example, each lesson shows learners which vocabulary to choose in order to solve the problem of that lesson. d Social processes (vocabulary) that teachers use to choose plans, instruction, and assessment of the amount of learning that occurs from lessons.
2. a Instruction of steps to solve problems, as in directions to assemble an unassembled chair and lessons to teach a chemistry principle. b A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations
3. Lessons that learners learn.
4. An accurate and concise formulation of ways to meet the standard of what is possible to occur through teaching-learning by applying behavioral and social science experimental research findings and processes.
Example: This example is among the simplest algorithms teachers use. It meets the standard of answering the generic question “What is it?
Teacher: (Catches learners’ attention by moving a pen before the class or learners’ eyes.) This is a pen. Say, ‘This is a pen.’
Student: This is a pen.
Teacher repeats the instruction, then tests whether the learner connects the image of the pen with the words, This is a pen.
Test while holding pen before learners’ eyes: What is this?
Student: This is a pen, or some variation of that recognition.
Synonyms: INSTRUCTING, planning, and teaching include social processes ranging from random selections to accurate and precise matches with choices learners will likely make while learning.
Comment: Algorithms (Instructions, Directions), from a learners’ view (ALV) are at the core of describing choices people make while learning. Algorithms are found in education when learners learn lessons. They are essential for efficient learning from instruction.
Teachers use algorithms to teach and learners “figure out” these algorithms through trial-and-errors until they find the patterns of choices they must use among the plethora of visual, auditory and other sensations during lessons. Even the most complex lessons consist of algorithms that learners use to solve the problem the lessons shows them how to solve. In this way, learning occurs over time. Learners of teachers who earn 1.0 ratings learn lessons faster and more consistently, because 1.0 teachers target sensations more accurately and precisely on choices for learners to use the algorithm for each lesson.
Agreement does not exist in education and among its supporters that lessons are algorithms with different names for learning lessons.
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Last Edited: January 13, 2016