November 27, 2009 by Joe Lawrence
The past two postings of mine on this site have covered the Learning Process. It is a concept I discuss in my book,
Inspire Tomorrow. There I only wrote one chapter on the process and wanted to expand on each phase just a little more. The first week, we learned about the struggle phase. Last week, we went into the
capable phase. This article is going to dive into the comfortable stage.
When learning a new skill or task you are going to spend time in the struggle phase of not knowing what you are doing and in the capable...
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November 20, 2009 by Joe Lawrence
I realized that after writing my book,
Inspire Tomorrow, people really wanted to know more about the learning process. Since, the book was about leadership, I only wrote one chapter on the topic of learning. Hopefully, these next few articles will shed some more light on the process.
In
my last article I outlined the learning process. I then went on to discuss the first phase, which is the struggle phase. In the struggle phase we learn the steps of a process and practice the new skill. This phase requires very close supervision to make sure we don’t adapt...
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November 13, 2009 by Ronald A. Rowe
Is it too early to write the obituary for printed newspapers? And when I say "write", I mean "type on a computer and upload to a website where it can be viewed by anyone anywhere in the world", not the archaic "print on dead trees and sell to people in a limited geographic area" way that it used to be used.
For years, techno-geeks and futurists have been declaring print dead, but to paraphrase Mark Twain, who sadly passed away decades before he ever got to use the Internet: reports of the demise of printed media may have been greatly...
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November 6, 2009 by Joe Lawrence
Everyone learns through a particular process. We all go through very similar stages as we learn a new skill or task. We struggle, we're capable, then comfortable, complacent and maybe eventually a master. I picked up on this pattern as an instructor while teaching a group of students. I noticed that with each class my students repeated a very similar process as the last one.
Whenever I taught something, they would be absolutely clueless as to what I was saying. They would learn the terms and go through the motions but still could not function on their own. If I let...
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