Book Review: The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning
What if you were successful only 15% of the time? Would you continue working in that line of work? Here is an example from the book The Six Disciplines of… Read more »
Category: Education
Book Review: The Multiplayer Classroom
Recently, I finished reading The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game* by Lee Sheldon. In this book, Sheldon shares his experiences of gamifying his classroom. Having been a game… Read more »
Book Review: Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving From Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere
Improving your performance may be as simple as having a job aid on hand. Take a recipe for example. Recipes are a job aid used to help you bake a… Read more »
Book Review: From Telling to Teaching: A Dialogue Approach to Adult Learning
Yesterday, I received this book in the mail and I was pleasantly surprised by what I read. Joye Norris has described a learning design approach for adult learners that just… Read more »
How Do You Weave Motivational Strategies Into Your Instructional Design?
Over the past two weeks, I have been focusing on the Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching developed by Wlodkowski and Ginsberg. This framework is presented in its entirety in Wlodkowski’s book, Enhancing… Read more »
How Do We Assess Adult Learners Without Necessarily Testing Them?
In the last section of Wlodkowski’s Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching from his book Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults*, he focuses on engendering competence among… Read more »