{"id":40782,"date":"2013-06-24T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40782"},"modified":"2013-06-24T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:35:28","slug":"see-a-silver-bullet-in-these-learning-theories-i-didnt-either-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/06\/24\/see-a-silver-bullet-in-these-learning-theories-i-didnt-either-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"See a silver bullet in these learning theories? &#8230;I didn&#8217;t either. [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>After viewing the items at <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edudemic.com\/2013\/06\/a-visual-guide-to-every-single-learning-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A visual guide to every single learning theory<\/strong><\/a> [edudemic.com; Robert Millwood] <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8212;<strong> can anyone see a silver bullet for designing learning experiences?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I can&#8217;t \/ didn&#8217;t either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningismessy.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Learning<strong> is<\/strong> messy<\/em><\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">and teaching is <em>not easy.<\/em>\u00a0 Anyone who thinks that teaching is easy has clearly never tried to teach or train anyone else on an ongoing basis. The mind is amazingly complex and there is no agreement amongst academics\/scholars\/researchers\/etc. on <em>thee<\/em> best learning theory or <em>thee<\/em> best way to teach someone something. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The end result of all of this for me is this:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Provide the content in as many ways as you possibly can and let the students select the media that they prefer to work with<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Try to provide relevant, real-world examples and assignments and explain how that topic\/assignment is relevant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Turn over as much control to the students as possible &#8212; i.e. let them drive<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Make the learning experience as engaging and enjoyable as possible &#8212; invite active participation and discussion wherever possible<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;m sure there are many more items, but those are the ones off the top of my head .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edudemic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/learningtheories-full.pdf\">Learning Theories.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: After viewing the items at A visual guide to every single learning theory [edudemic.com; Robert Millwood] &#8212; can anyone see a silver bullet for designing learning experiences? &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; I can&#8217;t \/ didn&#8217;t either.\u00a0 Learning is messy and teaching is not easy.\u00a0 Anyone who thinks that teaching is easy has clearly never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,423,279,66,50],"tags":[685],"class_list":["post-40782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-theories","category-love-of-learning","category-participation","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","tag-learning-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40782"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40795,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782\/revisions\/40795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}