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Thursday, September 22, 2005

If someone would have told me yesterday that I would have a 15 minute conversation with the Assistant Secretary of the Navy about educational methodology and the man/machine interface I would have chuckled politely and then slowly backed away looking for the nearest safe exit.

Today, however, that's exactly what happened. It was a really cool few minutes to talk with this guy and see how he was thinking about training in the Navy and how he was thinking through the process of creating systems around people rather than trying to force people to fit systems.

The conversation has spurred some thinking on my part about a "multiple pathways" approach to learning material. I have a class full of students with different learning styles and I have to try and find a way to teach to those. While the in the classroom time has to be organized, maybe there's some thing I can do that would allow students who wish to come more prepared multiple ways to to interact with the information that best suit their learning style. Of course, the problems that arise is that the students actually have to care enough to access the appropriate pathway and they have to know enough about their learning style to know which pathway works best for them.

Things to think about...

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