When The Teaching Finishes, Let The Learning Begin: From Bloom’s To Psychomotor

In the tech industry, if you do not continue to learn, you will quickly fossilise your knowledge. And if you do not take on new ideas, your knowledge will quickly become out-of-date, and may never catch-up. So are we better to stick our heads in some books — which are probably out-of-date anyway — or should we just jump and and learn through challenges? Computer science is at it’s most boring when it is reading from a book, and is at its most interesting when it is building something that actually does something.

Our new world is one where your knowledge will fade quickly, but where your skills will build. At one time you could have a job for life doing one thing. These days new things arrive by the day, and if you don’t adopt to it, you can quickly become out-of-date.

We have a natural ability to solve puzzles, but we tend to lose this ability over the years, as someone comes along and teaches us a method. In the future, these methods will become an online machine (“The Cloud”), and it will be up to us to make sense of the problems we are faced with, so that we can best use the machine.

Learning is doing

So when the teaching finishes, the learning begins. Should a teacher drum a whole lot of theory into their pupils, or…