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What's the right setting for delivering Experiential Learning content?
In the blog I wrote last month I tried to address some of the assumptions about experiential learning that seem to be getting in the way of people including elements of this approach in their programming. It seems that the most pervasive of these assumptions is about the physical spaces that are needed to deliver effective experiential content. To ...
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Are your assumptions about Experiential Learning getting in the way of a breakthrough in performance?
My friend and colleague Graham Cook is heading to Florida later this month where he'll be delivering a session at Training Magazine's 'Training 2024' conference and exhibition. His session is titled 'How to Design Behavioral Change Using Experiential Learning Activities'. I'm not going to be alongside him for this conference but that doesn't mean I...
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Continuous Professional Development for Focused Experiential Learning
Most good trainers and facilitators I meet tend to have a strongly developed intuition about the needs of others. It doesn't take long for them to get to understand what will help a student to learn, and how learning material needs to be presented to make it easier for that learning to take place. As these trainers and facilitators become more ...
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What's The Best Seasonal Gift You Could Give?
It’s a question I often read around this time of year, and it inevitably provokes responses from extremes of opinion. There are those who go full-on consumerist and suggest expensive cars, jewellery, homes etc, ideas that are balanced by those who reject these ideas and suggest good health, happiness, close family etc.
So, as I&rsquo...
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How do facilitators work with groups who have had an 'easy win'?
There were some interesting responses to last month’s blog which considered how to handle a session where your group are unsuccessful at completing the experiential task you have set them. For some people this was accepted as very sound advice, and it seems to have taken away some of the ‘fear of failure’ that was out there. ...
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Critical Curiosity (Module 3)
Learning Focus
- Collaboration
- Diversity/Cultural Awareness
- Effective Communication
- Improving Performance
- Innovation
- Problem Solving
Group Size
6 - 16
6 - 16
Duration
90+ Minutes
$299.00
The Critical Curiosity Module is our third Learning to Learn module which provides all the materials and activities to run your own half-day workshop to develop capable and effective learners by understanding and strengthening their learning skills.
Critical Curiosity Module focuses on critical thinking skills, being curious, and improving analytical skills. It focuses on helping individuals investigate and understand the power and art of asking questions, and the advantages in having an interest in why things happen, how things work, thinking critically and analytically.
The module contains practical experiential activities that small teams (of up to 16 people) can practice together, supported by a trainer or facilitator, and everything required to complete a 2-hour workshop for this module is included.
Our series of Learning to Learn modules focuses on developing capable and effective learners by understanding and strengthening 7 x key, researched learning skills.
This module is one of six other Learning to Learn Modules, which can be run independently or in combination with other modules. Buy all seven modules at a discounted price here.
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- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Intellectual curiosity
- Using questions to your advantage and understanding the power of asking questions
- Creative thinking & problem solving
- Understand what skills strengthen their learning
The module contains practical experiential activities that small teams (of up to 16 people) can practice together, supported by a trainer or facilitator, and everything required to complete a 2-hour workshop for this module is included.
This module is one of seven within our Learning to Learn Module Package about how we, as individuals, advance and strengthen our learning power through continuous learning.
Research that supported the development of these modules includes the Seven Dimensions of Learning Energy - see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricia_Broadfoot/publication/248939211_Developing_an_Effective_Lifelong_Learning_Inventory_the_ELLI_Project/links/56040e4208aea25fce30b06d.pdf
Module Contents:
1x Set of Counters, 1x Set of Spark-It cards, 6x Mystery Objects, 1x Coin sorter brief, Facilitator notes
Package Weight: 3.5kg
Timetable and activity outline:
- 0 - 5 minutes: Introductions & definitions. What do we mean by ‘Critical Curiosity’?
- 5 - 25 minutes: ‘No such thing as a silly question’
- 25 - 30 minutes: Asking great questions
- 30 - 45 minutes: Understanding how to choose the right kind of question
- 45 - 50 minutes: The NLP ‘Pointer questions’
- 50 - 65 minutes: The ‘Spark-It’ model and cards
- 65 - 90 minutes: ‘Mystery Object’ task
- 90 - 115 minutes: Problem-Solving Task: Coin Sorter
- 115 - 120 minutes: Summary and learning review
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