#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.

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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