A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

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A LEARNERS’ VIEW (ALV) OF LEARNING addresses the question, How do people learn? What do they do first, second, etc.? ALV gives priority to the how over what is learned. From a learners’ view, people learn in one step. Use of this fact, based on what is common in over 125 years of experimental behavioral and social science research on learning, to plan and instruct lessons can accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning and contributions of education by any label to social life, including in the 21st Century.

1. Learners (People) search for patterns among their senses to (re)solve problems they encounter in and out of schools. In lessons, teachers can expose or hide patterns that solve each problem.

2. Problems consist of incomplete patterns which learners try to complete.

3. Learning to complete a pattern (resolve a problem) occurs in one step through trials-and-errors in three parts at one or more of four levels that results in one of five generic response patterns.

4. Learners face at least 15 choice in the three phases they use to complete a pattern (to learn something, to resolve a problem).

5. Learners complete more patterns (learn more lesson content) and complete them faster (learn content in less clock time) when teachers plan and instruct lessons that reduce the number of trials-and-errors needed to find patterns that resolve problems.

6. Lesson content, at its core, consists of the vocabulary (words, movements, drawings, etc.) and logic (relationships) that resolve one or more problems, such as matching a sound with a mark on paper (a sign or symbol), completing a syllogism in chemistry, reciting a poem describing beauty, or avoiding a bear when hiking in their habitat.

7. Use of ALV requires applying facts, not assumptions, theories, or other speculation about cognition, neurology, or personal, cultural, or ethnic background.

You don’t have to reinvent teaching-learning to accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning. Just choose to see, hear, and use other senses to view, during lessons, learning as learners view and use this view while learning.

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Last Edit: June 21, 2016