Light Speed Idea #21 – 23 (Continues)

21.     Focus on 100%80%, 90% and certainly 95% are good test scores.  However, that’s a lot of errors and mistakes on the job.  For example, you wouldn’t stay in business long if you got 80% of your orders right.  Also, that’s only one test.  In addition what you don’t get right on one test accumulates [...]

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Light Speed Ideas #17 – 20 (Book Continues)

1.     Don’t Forget the Big Picture
All too often education is presented in pieces and parts.  Everything is done as building blocks toward something that is larger.  However, it’s harder to learn without knowing the big picture and how things really go together.  Think about how much faster it is to complete a jigsaw puzzle when [...]

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Light Speed Ideas #13 – 16 (Book Continues)

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1.     Blend Hard and Soft Skills
In most organizations hard (technical) skills and soft (people) skills are taught separately.  This is because the experts in area aren’t the same.  That’s why engineers get a bad rap about their people skills.  However on the job, employees need to be able to use all these skills [...]

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Light Speed Ideas #9 – 12 (Book Continues)

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I’ve finished some one paragraphy descriptions of ideas to speed up the learning process.  I’m going to post them in bunches.
9.       Teach the Way You Learn
There is usually a big difference the way people are taught versus how the actual learn something.  When you think about being taught, you usually think about someone [...]

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Light Speed Idea #8: Eliminate Waste

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One of the key activities in improving quality is to eliminate waste.  You may have been part of a Kaizen event that did this.  Waste can be anything that isn’t necessary and in particular in speeding up learning, you’re looking for things that are a waste of time.
So where is the waste in [...]

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Light Speed Idea #7 – Teach the Way Your Learn

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There is usually a big difference the way people are taught versus how the actual learn something.  When you think about being taught, you usually think about someone telling or showing you something.  When you think about how you learn, you usually think about a discovery you made or the hours of practice [...]

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Light Speed Idea #6 – Know Your Learning Style

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We all learn in slightly different ways. Knowing your own style or the style of your students and adapting really speeds up learning. Some people will tell you that they need to write things down before they learn them while others have to try things out before they start to learn. Some people [...]

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Light Speed Idea #5 – Remove Topic Silos

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Math, history, geography, team building, sales, political science and dozens more are popularly taught topics or subjects.   If you asked the question, why is education divided into these topics, the answer is probably… it’s seems logical, it’s one way to divided up everything or it allows teachers to specialize or I don’t really [...]

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Light Speed Idea #4: Storytelling Is Better than Telling

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Storytelling is a much more powerful way of teaching and learning than straight lecture or reading.  It’s effective for two key reasons.  First, it provides a structure that is easier to remember than straight delivery of facts and information.  Second, it provides a unique context for the new information that adds heavily [...]

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Light Speed Idea #3 – Teach to Learn

Uploaded on January 7, 2007 by PaleFires
Sitting in a lecture or watching a video or even reading text from an elearning screen is a fairly passive activity.  They are one way information dumps.  It’s like turning on the fire hose and asking you to drink.  You’ll get something from it but your retention rate will [...]

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