[Land-speed] learning part 2

[joseph lance]

Keith--you keep talking like this them Alabamy people are going to start 
thinking you're a polymath or maybe even a morphologist.

Lance

PS-keep it up anyway, good stuff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk at ala.net>
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:02 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] learning part 2


> The other thing I wanted to bring up here with this learning junk... is 
> the 4
> levels of learning.  Often we'll stop learning because we think we "have 
> it"
> and don't need to reinforce the change in behavior past the level we're 
> at...
> so here are the 4 levels of learning.
>
> Rote, Understanding, Application and Correlation
>
> Rote.... is the simple memorization of a skill and the ability to repeat 
> it
> back after you've learned it.  This is the very basis of learning a 
> skill....
> think of the shut down procedures your going to use...  Parachute, ease 
> off
> the throttle, put the car in Neutral, check temp's.  The ability to repeat
> that back is Rote learning.
>
> Understanding... is knowing why you do each of those things... I drive 
> into
> the chute underpower, then back off the throttle, slip the car into 
> neutral
> and then take a peak at how bad I hurt it.
>
> Application... is the physical use of the steps... what you really do
> mechanically in the car... touching each of the handles and making sure 
> you
> get it all in the proper sequence.
>
> Correlation ... is putting the shut down procedures with all of the rest 
> of it
> to actually make a pass.... there's start procedures, launch procedures, 
> run
> stuff and ultimately what you do in shut down... so basically Correlation 
> is
> putting together a complete series of the independent events to compete a
> single run...
>
> Keith ( okay I'll try and put all of this together for you in the last one 
> of
> these )