I would like to know of a community where I can post things that I write to myself. I’m not capable enough to make my own community yet, and I’ve got a lot to say.
My question, though, is about learning. What’s your single most essential defining piece of advice, to share the love of learning? To make someone who isn’t interested, interested?
Other than necessity, I guess. I hope that doesn’t just answer the question.
Learning for the sake of learning is nice, but sometimes it’s nice to learn for the sake of figuring something out.
So, try asking yourself an easy-to-ask question to which you don’t know the answer. Sleep on it. Come up with your own explanation. After a while you may find yourself itching to find out a “proper” answer. The best part is, a lot of questions aren’t completely answered. But you’ll have to do some learning to see which ones.
Yeah I really need an end goal. For example
I want to add solar panels to my house.
Well in researching that I have learned about electricity, solar panels, inverters, roofing, batteries etc…etc…
Let them play. Give them the pieces and let them play with it for a long time before trying to do any guiding.
If you want deeper analysis, read almost anything about learning by https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn
He covers a lot about intrinsic motivation for learning.
Give them the tools to learn and start them on a topic they care about
I try to be kind, inviting, respectful and curious.
I think of those teachers who marked me and how they made me feel and then try to apply their ways.
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Let them learn by doing.
That is, don’t have them try to sit down with a book and “learn”. Get them to start a project and learn what they need to learn to complete it as they work on the project. (Maybe even work on the project with them.)
That said, it’s probably beneficial to do “small”-ish projects while they’re learning so they can get some quick wins early on.
But if they’re not using what they’re learning, they’re going to forget it faster than they learn it.
Everytime is interested in something, but they night not know it yet. Start researching any topic that interests you and that will usually lead you to learning about something else. Does ‘stumble upon’ still exist?
