B-Learning along with E-Learning

by Andy Bozeman

It’s no secret. The people who can e-learn are the same ones who can…......just plain learn. 

If we look at four distinct times of existence, a startling fact emerges concerning who is able to learn:

• Past              Motivated students who knew how to learn


• Now              Motivated students who know how to learn


• Future           Motivated students who know how to learn


• Forever          Motivated students who know how to learn 

I’m all for devising remarkable ways to get information to the motivated students who already know how to learn. But I also want to concentrate on teaching more young people the basics of learning. No one can learn at the speed of light if they can’t grasp a printed word sitting still on a page.

Please join me in this process. Spend 95% of your time developing and disseminating light-speed learning processes. Spend 3% reinventing processes for basic learning (b-learning), such as reading from a printed page, and writing on a piece of paper, and doing arithmetic with a pencil or piece of chalk. Then spend 1% thinking about how to combine the two.

Don’t forget, we’re analog, not digital. We feel knowledge more than we absorb it. The sensation of holding a book, even an e-book device, creates a tactile connection, which becomes mental. Learning occurs through the senses – hand to eye to brain to hand. In my opinion, nothing will ever replace a piece of paper you can hold in your hand.

Did you notice that 1% is still missing? Here it is. Spend 1% of your time considering how to create motivated students. In all methods of education, bring back the old inspirational stories of morality and accountability, the stories that transcend religious biases, refute superstition, and  favor the uniquely human drive to be self-reliant, self-supporting, and self-fulfilled.

The greatest motivation comes when an individual realizes the connection between learning and living well. 

So, with combinations of b-learning and e-learning, let’s teach Living Well at Light Speed.