Unlearning Learning Umes Shrestha

10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Workshop Experience Productive

1. Understand you real reasons for joining the workshop and check if they align with the workshop objectives.

2. Understand the modality of the workshop.

3. Try to get in touch with other participants.

4. Don’t go into a workshop without any preparation.

5. And go with an open mind, without judgment.

6. Try to ‘get out of your comfort zone’

7. Provide proper and concrete feedback to the facilitator

8. Stay in touch.

9. Request the trainer for a follow-up session.

10. Share the ideas & skills with someone else – a friend or a colleague.

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We love giving advice, suggestion, and feedback - that too unsolicited. As a teacher, I've made this mistake several times. And, as a teacher developer, I've done this during workshop sessions too. 

We have done this mistake, I'm sure.

Experience is a great teacher and I've come up with my own "rule of thumb" regarding this complex issue of giving and receiving advice, suggestion, and feedback. Talking about this rule and sharing a few examples in this podcast.


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Note: Recorded in English + Nepali mixed language

This episode is for teachers who are trying to unravel the complex issue of learning and teaching. I will be recording a series of episodes summarizing and reviewing each chapters from the seminal book "How Learning Happens".

Book: How Learning Happens - Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice
Paul A. Kirschner and Carl Hendrick

Chapter 1: A novice is not a little expert

The takeaways are:
a. Beginners aren’t “little” experts; they know less and think differently than experts.
b. Children also aren’t small adults. They see the world very differently and therefore have to learn differently.
c. A teaching approach that works well with an expert will most probably not work well with a beginner and can even be detrimental to their learning.
d. Try to differentiate at an early stage.
e. The epistemology of the expert is not the proper pedagogy for the learner.

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The three learning myths I talked about in this episodes:

The Learning Pyramid
The Learning Styles
Knowledge is out there (in the internet)

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Article Source:
https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2017/12/26/20-research-myths/


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This time I'm talking with Abha Dhital, who loves writing, doodling, branding, and storytelling.
Recording this episode was fun and reflective at the both time. 

Give it a listen, okay.

Find Abha here:
https://abhadhital.wixsite.com/abhadhital/about

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/


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This is my first episode in 2021 and I tried to have a guest in for the first time as well :)

My guest is Biliz Maharjan, an MBA/IT graduate working an Investment/IT Analyst in a Merchant Banking Company. For me, his writing captured my attention and I got hooked into it. In this almost an hour long conversation, we dive into a lot of stuffs on learning, writing, teaching, habits, and we also did an impromptu section on "5 things that made you a better learner" and "One favorite book, one favorite habit, and one favorite quote". 

Hope you'll enjoy this conversation.

Find Biliz here:
https://www.bilizmaharjan.com/

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/


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