You can't tell me how to do something. Well, you can tell me but it's not going to sink into my little pea brain as well as it would if you showed me. Actually you can't show me either....you have to let me do it. This is the only way I can learn. And then you have to let me play, see how it works if I follow your instructions. I also need to see how it works if I don't follow your instructions. It's like learning how to drive via a coorespondance course. Yeah, I can get the concept but it won't sink in until I've had a chance to get behind the wheel and drive and also to make mistakes. (Hopefully not resulting in a fender-bender or injury)
Randall Shirley puts it this ways:
It's simple really. Think about one of life's earliest lessons - often
taught by our mothers: The Stove Can Burn You.
- Listening learners heard their mother, believed the information, and never touched a stove.
- Seeing learners watched their brother touch the stove, and never touched it.
- Experience learners touched the stove; but only once!
I'm definitely an "experience learner."
There's an old Chinese Proverb that supports this:
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
And this is how I roll. :)
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