The sum of the parts: ensuring the coherence of the narrative in learning
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There’s an odd dichotomy in learning: we experience both the whole and the parts. Each element of the learning, be it a discussion, a video, animation or text, illustration or podcast, each of these things we take in isolation: it makes sense, it challenges us, it provokes us, but the effectiveness of the piece is experienced as a whole. How are you different at the end of it?
Sometimes i describe this as internal and external coherence. Take a piece of video: it has characters, maybe a guide, backdrops, scenery, props, lighting, sound. All these things need to come together around the core element of ‘story’. In isolation, the video needs a coherent story. Call this the internal coherence. But it doesn’t sit in isolation, it sits alongside a model, which also needs internal coherence. And maybe an interactive exercise which needs the same. Any of these elements will be experienced in isolation, so they need internal coherence to make sense.
from Julian Stodd's Learning Blog: More on julianstodd.wordpress.com