I had my first teaching session on Monday.

A friend of mine introduced me to alady who would like to learn how to set up her own web site. So we agreed on doing a private lesson. Two hours per session, once a week for two months. Monday was the first session.

Before the lesson I gave her some assignments which I thought were very straightforward.  I asked her to review intro to HTML and try out various html tags from webmonkey.

In my mind, I saw her coming to “class” with sample of html files.

To my surprise, she came with this question: “what do I do with these (html tags)?”

She had no idea where to start.

She knew the tags and what they were supposed to do because she did ask me questions about some of the tags, but she had no idea what to do with that knowledge.

This makes me wonder about learning process. I used to think that learning is accumulating knowledge, but seems like knowledge is worthless if it can’t be applied to actions.

Perhaps this is where interactive media can be utilized. To add the “action” element to the learning process. Providing the guided first step which will inspire the student to take the second, third and fourth steps outside the class environment.

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