Adult Learning
"The pre-TV adults are the one-thing-at-a-time generation. They read a
magazine article straight through from beginning to end; then they make a phone call or
watch TV. The TV babies, by contrast, seem to be happy processing information from
different sources almost simultaneously. They really can do their homework, watch TV, talk
on phone, and listen to the radio all at the same time. It's as if information from each
source finds its way to a different cluster of thoughts." (Robert W. Pittman,
"We're Talking the Wrong Language to TV Babies," The New York Times 1/24/90)
The goal of most adult training is to teach specific skills, such as
how to operate a piece of equipment or work on a particular computer language. Adults
usually have a well-defined purpose for acquiring new information, i.e. learning.
(Richard Saul Wurman, Follow the Yellow Brick Road)
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