Understanding how to use filters in instruction
The realization that instructors need to assist adult learners to reset their mind filters (deletion, distortion and generalization) so that they will be able to delete information that does not have relevancy and keep/store non-distorted knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in long-term memory to perform both concrete and abstract thinking will help me to better understand how to structure learning activities so that the student is not overwhelmed in the learning process.
Paulette,
Thank you for these strategies for how to support, engage and encourage adult learners. They often times think they cannot be successful in school after being our for a number of years and yet they have many life experiences from which they can draw to reinforce the content being taught.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
When assisting the adult learner, the instructor need to get them to make connections between what is now being taught and what they already know. To do this the instructor should begin by giving examples and explanation the problem or material.This concept will help them to recall and thus forced them to use their short term memory and long term memory to capture and remember the content.One way of doing that is with the use of games. the instructor will therefore force the student sematic memory to link the episodic memory making the content relevant ant thus filter out the fluff that is not needed.
