This title will set off all the filters, so if you didn't get your newsletter today, it's because your spam filter is being a prig. Will Thalheimer links to a presentation describing some (but by no means all) of the uses of Dale's Cone of Experience to assess the relative merits of different teaching and leanring styles. Rereading Thalheimer's original post on this is relevant in light of some recent discussions on learning styles. "How did someone compare 'reading' and 'seeing?' Don't you have to 'see' to 'read?' What does 'collaboration' mean anyway? Were two people talking about the information they were learning? If so, weren't they 'hearing' what the other person had to say? What does 'doing' mean?" Quite so. We need to be careful about our vocabulary when we talk about learning, because there are numerous domains of discourse, varying from sensory vocabularies (seeing, feeling, sensing, smelling) through cognitive vocabularies (inferring, deciding, recognizing) though behavioral vocabularies (speaking, joining, creating, collaborating) - and further subdivisions among each of these!
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