Tag Archive for: teaching

Repetition Is the Mother of Learning

When we’re putting my teachings into practice at my trainings, many people tend to ask for advice on things I just taught them. This usually makes me wonder, did the learner listen to what I just said, because it should be impossible to forget that fast, right? However, according to Ebbinghaus’s definition of the forgetting curve almost 60 percent of newly learned things are forgotten during the first hour.

Teaching and Learning IT skills

What is the best way to teach IT skills? I strongly believe that a certain theoretical base helps the learning process significantly but know-how and doing can't be taught just by lecturing theory. Training plays an important role.