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You teach swimming or prevent drowning?

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Okay, I realize that's a fairly aggressive title! But a fairly stark realization that has become apparent to us, as of late, both in our travels and when working with many senior learning leaders. We simply aren't tasked to deliver the same outcomes we once were.

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4 Essential L&D Tools for 2023

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Whether virtual or physical, they are used to teach people specific sets of skills to support business strategies and functions. . For example, Comcast uses a capabilities academy to teach customer service skills, plus various service technologies, best practices, and other important employee behaviors. Capability Academies.

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We need to know where we've been to get where we're going.

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When I was a 4 th grade school teacher a wonderful mentor of mine introduced me to the one of the most powerful teaching approaches I had ever seen – having my kids grade their own papers and then research and EXPLAIN why they had gotten the problem wrong. It was with this exercise that I witnessed the power of self-evaluation.

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What we've been reading?

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Their site curates a growing list of resources that translates scientific research into practical guidance about teaching and learning. You can check out her blog on her personal website , as well as a recent guest post on another useful site, built and maintained by the "Learning Scientists" ( www.learningscientists.org ).

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Forgetting to remember.

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He had to teach himself how to filter out mundane information, writing down phone numbers, for instance, as a way to not remember. In order to effectively remember the things he needed to remember, in other words, he had to teach himself what to forget. It is necessary to forget effectively, so that we can remember effectively.