The learning difference between adults and children

(upbeat music) - What's the difference between learning as a child, learning as a teenager and learning as an adult? Isn't all learning, learning? Well, not exactly. See, there's three ways with which we differ between learning as a child, a teenager and as an adult. The first one. As a child, we were adult dependent learners, meaning we were relied on an adult to bring us our next lesson, to bring us our next subject or our next understanding. But adults, adults choose what they want to learn, they're self-directed, which means choice becomes a really important component for us to include in our lesson strategy. Secondly, as a teenager, we implicitly believe that the lessons that we're being taught are true. There's very little reason for us to contradict those lessons, but as an adult, we use skepticism to validate our education. We want to apply and compare our own unique perspectives and experiences to what it is that we're learning. This is a really good thing, this allows us to build a bridge in our lesson strategies. And thirdly, as adults, we have to know exactly where that lesson is going to impact our day to day lives, meaning as youngsters, we really didn't know were the value of that education was going to come from, we didn't understand where we might use that lesson in the future, but as adults, we have to know exactly how that impacts our day to day, where it is that we will see the greatest use from that lesson. So, as you're building your lesson strategies, keep in mind, that as adults, we need to be able to provide choice and in the different ways with which we learn, we need to give them something to compare them to, allow their natural skepticism to play a role in this, and third, we need to make sure, that the content that we're creating has instant relevance for their day to day lives. If we do that, we'll build stronger lesson strategies.