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"Learning by correlation."Call this learning by connecting new ingrams (neurons) in the brain. Every child (young person) gets to a certain point, and then they suddenly start making those connections and learning at a furious pace. (It always does not happen at the same age, every child is different.) A good example of this technique was many years ago. I was challenged to teach chess to a group of very indifferent young people at a local high school. They seemed to have no interest in chess, but a seemingly endless appetite for "war-games." (Board games.) The first thing I decided to do - after failing completely at my first attempt to "force" them into learning chess - was to play many of these games with them. This not only helped establish a relationship, I began to learn as much about these games, as I possibly could. Then one day, I told them they were going to learn a new "war-game" that was thousands of years old. I brought a buddy of mine along and we played several games of speed/blitz chess, (lightning fast chess played with a dual-clock timer); and the kids were hooked. They wanted desperately to learn this new game!! As I began to teach them chess, I tried to draw as many correlations between the war games they were already familiar with, and the new game I was attempting to teach them. (Example: "You must control the center, in a game of chess." {"Why"} "Think of it as <high-ground,> as your German/WWII game." They grasped this instantly.) ***** Since I first wrote this page I have received literally dozens of e-mails about this. Many teachers said they have been using the "correlation" method for years. (But perhaps without realizing that it is one of the basic ways the human mind works.) (More on this fascinating topic later.) Copyright (c) A.J. Goldsby I; Copyright (©) A.J. Goldsby, 1998-2008. Copyright © A.J. Goldsby, 2009. All rights reserved.
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