LEARNING BY DOING

Generative Learners take a “Quick and Dirty” approach to learning by doing. They gather as much information as they can about a topic, be it internet resources, articles, videos and books by seminal theorists in the field. Here they search, consume and make meaning.

They then go a step further by interviewing these experts and master practitioners to collapse their learning time and learn the most important components of a skill or process. In this way they break apart skills into different sub-components to understand and master each one seperately before integrating them. Once identified, they practice or drill the skill that they need improvement in. They learn independently without the need for coaches on the side.

Generative learners gain access to necessary equipment and environments to allow them to practise continuously to build their skills muscles by engaging in personal passion projects. They experiment and learn by doing and most importantly they from failure from reflecting on why they failed and making adjustments and observing the effects. They learn from trial and error and look for gaps to attack. They are not afraid of failure but even encourage it.

Generative learners gain access to the necessary equipment and environments to allow them to practice continuously to build their skills muscles by engaging in personal passion projects. Local libraries and schools become community innovation laboratories housing not only physical books and meeting spaces but also arts and craft equipment and technological tools for building prototypes and testing ideas. The library becomes not only a learning resource for the generative learner but also the a social heartbeat of the community where entrepreneurs, NGO’s and civic groups meet to spark conversations about the unfolding future and social issues.