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- # Learning Ladder
- By Marc Carson - www.marccarsoncoaching.com
- ## Common Methods and Uses
- - Google Images
- - For e.g. diagrammable or captionable tutorial topics.
- - Systems
- - Component breakdowns
- - Slideshare
- - Look up on Youtube if it is working, helping (see if there's an
- actual recording of the presentation)
- - PDF search
- - May need to filter by site
- - Short (3-5m) Youtube videos
- - Reddit posts / summaries
- - Reddit users if topical
- - Online articles
- - Blog posts at .edu sites or other restricted-results search
- - Less risk of pay-per-word
- - Podcasts
- - Troublesome if not casual; tendency to rewind all the time
- - Fun otherwise
- - Possibly useful for topic review.
- - eBooks
- - Hoopla / other library
- - Amazon
- - Print books
- - Writing in the book itself is powerful for modeling purposes.
- - Index Carding
- - Create a mental model for a topic that fits on a small index card. Use a pencil and erase / update as needed.
- - Provides a quick start for when you might drop the topic for periods of time
- - Easily portable
- - Easily locatable, keep in a specific place
- - DVD / Blu-ray
- - Outlets: Library
- - High leverage for cementing known information and filling in details
- - High leverage for use in training others
- - Writing Tutorials
- - Very useful as a guided research method.
- - Important to start simple, for you AND the learner
- - "Here's how to install the software that does the thing you want
- to do"
- - Online courses
- - Important to know facts, scope, schedule, and build a mental model
- of the course itself, explicitly. (Paying attention to Se)
- - In-person courses
- - In addition to above, important to model the travel, timeline, and
- interval early on, so that Se stress is not compounded.
- - Contingencies do help.
- - Certifications
- - Typically important as a platform-supporter
- - Teaching Classes
- - Identify a comfortable context first
- - Very good for immediately requiring structure
- - Starting Businesses
- - Can be a side business, no pressure to be anything more than even
- a few minutes a week
- - Allows depth and breadth of exploration
- - The more high-level structure, the better
- - Should draw on gifts
- ## Points of leverage
- - Identifying difficulties when you come across them
- - Compressed learning--speeding up videos
- - Teaching to learn
- - Learning the intuitive way
- - Intuit:
- - Identify the intuition: Extraversion of thought
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- ## Points of person-to-person contact
- ### Main outlets of information:
- - WWW
- - Google
- - Online Forums; Reddit
- - FB groups
- - Internet
- - IRC
- - Public library
- - Other people, direct contact
- - Neighbors
- - People at Church
- - Clubs or groups locally
- - Amateur radio club
- ### Successful Interface Characteristics
- - If a referral-based method is possible, referrals are very useful
- - Correctly frames the communication as Them -> Me
- - Does not communicate a challenge / threat
- - Allows me to be in listener mode
- - Determine General Approach Method
- - By psychological type:
- - Relationship-sensitive--rapport first, then information
- - Relationship-insensitive--information first, then rapport
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