- Learning must tone with the way the brain works.
Both linear thinking of the left brain and holistic creative thinking of the right brain constitute effective learning. You cannot ignore any of the two components.
- Learning becomes better when various learning options are available.
Each one of us has their own distinctive way in learning. For everyone to learn effectively, we have to provide a variety of learning options.
- Successful learning appeals to how the brain retains information.
The brain is a better graphics processor than it is a word processor. Pictures and graphics are way easier to remember than words. Moreover, we remember things that are presented in context way easier than scattered boring ideas.
- Getting learners involved enhances learning.
Learning is a process of creating knowledge, not consuming it. For learners to have a chance to incorporate knowledge un their own experience, and reproduce it in a creative way, we need to give them the chance to be fully involved in the process, physically, emotionally and intellectually.
- Learners learn what they want to learn.
No effective learning can take place without appealing to a personal goal in the learner. Learners need to know what effect will learning have k=on their lives so they are able to set their goals.
- People learn best in context.
Facts and skillslearned in isolation are hard to obsorb and retain.
- Learning is a social experience.
Collaboration between learners speeds learning, and competition hinders it. Peer learning is most of the time the most effective way of learning. Most effort must be focused on building a functioning learning society.
