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We talk too much. As trainers and teachers, we bore our learners to death. We don’t mean to. We truly think that we are doing the opposite. But the fact remains: As long as learners are passively sitting and listening to us talk, they are not learning much. It gets worse. Those of us who train trainers, or who teach people how to teach, are often modeling the exact strategies we rail against. We lecture about not lecturing. We read straight from our PowerPoint® slides. We ignore current brain research and use outdated instructional strategies that never worked well to begin with. To compound the problem, as more people realize that they can get a wealth of knowledge from the Internet—what they ...
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