A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On the Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.
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From a learners’ view (ALV), part of the uncertainty associated with learning and education results from the emergence of a scientific order of descriptions of learning that interact with nonscientific views. Said another way, ALV brings together the conventions of mathematical calculations with traditions of educational narratives. These views share few historic attributes except to continue the uncertainty.
From a learners’ view, traditional educational narratives are to learning as the Farmer’s Almanac and wooly worms are to forecasting the upcoming weather. Both ALV and educational narratives have uses. ALV adds precision to forecasts of learning and speed to increasing the amount and rate of learning.
On the nonscientific side are the splinters from disintegrating traditional family, ethnic, religious, economic, and political ways of life. Obsessed by historic grievances and identities, adherants strive to prevail over rivals who appear to challenge them, such as science teachers who insist on teaching creationism, not evolution, even when it is not in the approved curriculum and have repeatedly resulted in students of those classes earning unsatisfactory annual state academic performance scores. The goal of minimum student academic performance appears frequently beyond their interest and imagination. They argue for their independence as a professional without regard to how teachers’ personal biases effect students’ performances, for the authority of their employer to set the curriculum, and of available scientific evidence of ways to increase learning, including of creationism.
Some of the nonscientific adherants argue for maintenance of the status quo. They hold to administrative and political separations that scientific findings show as inaccurate or at best unreliable predictors of learning, such as arguing for smaller enrollments in classrooms. The anti-advancing communication technologists segment of the status quo adherants appear to defend themselves against being replaced by instruction via electronic networks. …
Finally, there are the cosmopolitan types who start discussions of learning by defining learning. They probably represent the basic units of a new global order of learning. They include the school drop-out farmer who uses scientifically developed hybred seeds and fertilizers to increase crop yields, the hiker who uses a compass to add precision to her direction, entrepreneur, and software developer and other people who rely on learning that yields products they find convenient and comfortable to use daily.
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Last Edited: 01-11-15