At Latitudes, we believe that learning is at the heart of living, that learning is deeply personal, and providing tools for learners to engage in meaningful interactions with the world is what we do. The tools we use and practice are based on a continuous learning cycle, heuristics, and a creative disequilibrium mindset.
Continuous Learning Cycle
Instructional Strategies for Literacy
Engaging and Activating Strategies: Activating StrategiesBookletNEW.doc
Cognitive Strategies: Cognitive StrategiesBookletBobMoore.docx
Summarizing Strategies: SummarizingStrategiesBooklet.doc
Heuristics
Simply put, heuristics is a fancy word to describe how to figure things out. The tools we use to figure things out include
- Practicing Systems thinking ala Peter Senge
o Personal mastery
o Mental models
o Shared vision
o Team learning
- Asking good questions
- Practicing writing-to-learn systems
- Storytelling
- Engaging and interactive instructional tools
Creative Disequilibrium
At the heart of learning is experiencing something new about something, someone, others, or oneself. The learning experience can range from brutally painful to blissfully ecstatic, and many points between both extremes.