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2 Day Workshop - Learning to Learn; New and Revised for the 21st Century
Learning To Learn (and its sister program Managing Information Overload) was conducted throughout Australia and New Zealand for 7 years, ending in 1994. In the fifteen years since the world has continued to accelerate along a course of increasing demand for effective strategies for managing information specifically, and for learning generally.
During these past 15 years Dr Stephanie Burns has continued to study the phenomenon of adult learning and information processing. There has been an explosion of scientific advances in the areas of adult learning and information processing. There is more demand on adults to learn quickly and effectively. It is time to make available this new work.
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Information included below:
- What you will learn- Who should attend
- Fees
- About the original program
- About Dr Stephanie Burns
What you will learn:
- A three to four times increase in your reading speed with full comprehension
- A significantly enhanced ability to locate relevant information
- The ability to discern good information and bad information
- The skills to retain information and to then recall and apply that information on demand
- Specific memory skills for vocabulary, foreign language, facts and general information
- The means to take notes that are purposeful and useful
- How to change your perception of time, and to use time more effectively
- To make learning effortless, almost incidental
- To determine when a course, on-line program or book is the cause of learning difficulties and what to do about it
- A greater understanding of the adult brain and nervous system for learning and why it is that adults learn (can learn) so much faster and better than children
- How to enhance physical coordination, balance and flexibility
- To replace learning difficulties you may have experienced in the past with new, effective strategies
- Improved general study strategies
- Control over your brain for concentrated efforts
- How to apply all these strategies to your own personal and professional learning goals
Dr Burns has revisited and revised each piece of Learning To Learn content for this new program to include our latest understanding of the brain, body and learning. Although Stephanie has chosen to retain the activities of reading, memory, note-taking and physical skill development, there are no less than 50 new distinctions being embedded in the new program.
Who should attend:
Learning To Learn is designed for anyone with significant tasks involving regular doses of new information that must be assimilated and used. It is designed for the adult who wants to maximise the effectiveness of their time devoted to study and learning, be that on the job or in private. It is for anyone who wants to understand what is possible for human learning over the lifespan.
Because LTL uses an adult level of vocabulary, we suggest that young people attending under the age of 15 be accompanied by a parent.
Fees:
$1,320 inc GST per person
$1,650 inc GST per person
$1,320 inc GST per person
$1,980 inc GST per person
$1,650 inc GST per person
About the Original Learning to Learn Program
The original Learning To Learn program was created and produced in Australia in 1987. Its overarching purpose was to assist adults in two ways.
First, it guided participants to an honest evaluation of the effectiveness of the learning strategies they were then using in adult learning situations. These strategies having been developed while they were children in school, and which were effective in that context proved to be wholly inefficient for the adult world.
Second, it taught participants more effective adult learning strategies, taking advantage of the adult brain, such that they became more effective in managing the ever-swelling need to learn as forced by today's careers.
Adults should succeed in any task requiring learning. Be that learning to ride a motorcycle, speak a foreign language, complete a University course, or be the most knowledgeable in their field. That adults do fail to succeed is not a fault in the adult, but in the strategies they employed. This is not a belief, this is the fact of learning effectively and the Learning To Learn program addressed this directly.
The strategies taught in the original program were applied in wide and diverse ways by participants: to school, to locating relevant information, to making information memorable and useable, to the development of physical skills and so on. There is no end to the stories of successful learning that were achieved once these new learning techniques were applied. Most importantly, participants acquired confidence that what they set out to do would indeed be done with success.
During these past 15 years Dr Stephanie Burns has continued to study the phenomenon of adult learning. There has been an explosion of theoretical advances in the areas of science informing this phenomenon. For society, the world too has changed. There is more demand on adults to learn quickly and efficiently. It is time to make available this revised work.
About Dr Stephanie Burns
Dr Stephanie Burns is a world leader in the field of adult learning and deep skill development and transference.
To those who know her and her work, Stephanie Burns is something of an icon. Stephanie has taken a life path few could tread. Devoting her life to achieving a greater understanding of the learning process and what affects human motivation. Stephanie's work has not only dispelled many myths that surround these important areas, but has broken new ground in terms of the way we think about learning, motivation and teaching.
Her prime motive in all her professional efforts is a genuine interest in helping people get where it is they say they want to go.
Stephanie was born in the U.S. and has been a resident of Australia since 1987. She lives on the northern beaches of Sydney. Today Stephanie spends much of her time guiding students through uniquely crafted learning experiences online.
You can always find her hanging out with students in her virtual online office at www.stephanieburns.com.
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