Learning Ladder Framework 0.1

# 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