#004 - It's Not A Cakewalk

Episode #004 - It"s Not A Cakewalk

I.  Introduction

• Our aim:
  • To help business leaders, trainers, and teachers level up their skills in L&D;
  • To curb the difficulty of learning by providing a clean and intuitive, mobile-learning environment.
  • Visit us at ConveYour.com
• This episode focuses on the difficulty of learning

II. Defining “It’s Not A Cakewalk”

• Learning must be effortful (Based on Make It Stick: https://conveyour.com/blog/a-review-of-make-it-stick-the-science-of-successful-learning)
• What are the tools of elaboration, reuse, recitation, and mixing up?
• The Ancient Way of Learning (the Trivium)
  • Grammar Stage
  • Dialectic Stage
  • Rhetoric Stage

III.  Not Just Consumption

• Mastery isn’t developed within hours of being in a workshop
• Mastery isn’t observation (Golf example)
• "To know and not to do is not to know at all.” - Laozi
• Spaced Repetition
  • We remember things best
    • Right before we forget them
    • When we are forced to recall
• Not: Consume, Consume, Consume—Go Do
• Rather: Consume, Recall; Consume, Recite; Consume, Elaborate—Go Do
• The most effortful learners become experts (violinist example)

IV.  Capability of Platforms

• Evolution of e-Learning 
  • Blogging
  • Vlogging
  • Website Publishing as a Course

V.  The Time Factor—So much information, it’s difficult to consume

• Time doesn’t mean effort (Working out)
• Need for high intensity
• Deliberate practice

VI.  Allowing People to Fail

• Squeamish about wrong answers
• The “All of the above” Issue in quizzing
• No sense of assessment
• The Problem of participation trophies
• “Fail often. Fail early. Fail forward.”
• The real world.
• Stephen’s Wish: “It’s okay to fail.”
• Chess example (embedding tactics into your game)

VII.  Conclusion