Building Empowered Learners Daily

What!?! Students guiding their own learning? That's crazy!! Excuse me, who else should be doing it?

"Won't they just watch YouTube and improve their gaming skills?"

That won't happen when learners are coached in some basic principles and held accountable.

Choosing a Direction

What is it that you would like to learn? Make a complete list over the next ten minutes, but don't hesitate to add new topics in the time ahead. CLICK HERE to start a running list.

Carving Out Time

When will you take the time to learn? It could be an hour a day, a few hours, or several days in a row for a whole day. Set a routine that you can manage and honor on a regular basis.

Finding Incentives

What is your motivation? Is there something that will help you to push yourself to complete a difficult task? It could be phone time, game time, a snack, a break, but is specific to you.

Making a Plan

Where will you begin? How will you know you have finished? These are the reasons to make a plan and consider the steps to get the job done. Getting sidetracked is easy without a path.

OK -- check your email. If you read through the segments above and started your list, you should already have a document to get you started on your path to self-directed learning. If you want to know how to program an efficient response method like that, consider learning AutoCrat. If you have recently said, "I wish there was something that would..." or "I wish I knew how to..." about any topic, this is something to include on your list. Items can be simple tasks that might take an hour to learn through online research and videos or they could be as involved as writing your first novel.

Why are you still looking here?

Start your plan with the document at the link above

STUCK FOR IDEAS (Click HEre)

GCF Learn Free - Goodwill Community Foundation, a learning resource of the familiar Goodwill Industries

Google Applied Digital Skills - Google video lessons and activity guidelines for a variety of subjects

Khan Academy - High quality, non-profit learning platform for school-type topics and general knowledge

TED-Ed - Short educational videos for "stand-alone" learning

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Or Code.org, Coursera, EdX, (which aren't as self-directed; some paid options, but are free)

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Of course, you don't need a prescribed curriculum to learn something new. You can do some general research on a topic, seek reliable resources, organize them for learning, and follow a plan.

Be prepared that sometimes during that process, you might need to take a "side trip" to learn about something that you didn't realize was an important step at the beginning.

Credits

This learning approach and website was created by LeAnne Schmidt at LSempowerED@gmail.com.

This home page can be cited as:

Schmidt, LeAnne. "Building Empowered Learners Daily." EmpowerED Basics. https://sites.google.com/view/empoweredbasics. 30 Jun 2020.

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