We added a page to summarizes Classic Education: A Learners’ View (ALV) of Choices during Teaching and Learning. Readers, including teachers, have reported that they “don’t have time” to spend reading “another thing” they should do in a classroom.
This summary offers a reason – hopefully a persuasive one – to use a learners’ view (ALV) and the ALV Path to organize and offer lessons. Whenever someone learns something from any lesson, from a learners’ view it’s because the instruction matched what learners watch and listen for to learn something. Why then wouldn’t educators spend the time to try ALV since that’s what learners use while trying to learn from educators lessons? It’s doable one lesson at a time.
Scientists have documented that up to 9 or more of 10 learners will likely learn such lessons. That’s an extraordinary result with implications for administration, research, and public policy of education, including of school reform. These data set a standard of academic performance in schools that is different from current practices in schools on and off the Internet.
The summary begins with the observation PEOPLE LEARN. While that’s a “Dah!,” it is also the reason scientists have tried through increasing refinements to describe what people do to learn. ALV and ALV Path are names to refer in a short-cut way to these descriptions, almost exclusively to those by experimental behavioral and social scientists.
Editing continues to clarify how each page of the site describes an aspect of what observers see, hear, etc. and educators can manage and measure while people learn more efficiently and faster from lessons that use ALV and the ALV Path.
Last Edited: 12-21-14