Short #41 - Context in Education

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today's short live podcast, Bryan discusses the importance of context in education and the challenge presented by information.

When we learn, we do ourselves a disservice by searching for information alone. Just-in-time education allows us to "search instead of research," and it works in a limited and inefficient way. Instead, we'd be much more effective if we knew how to learn efficiently. To learn efficiently, we need to bring context to the learning process.

Instead of focusing on raw facts or abstract information, we need to know about the surrounding information. It's also beneficial to use similes and metaphors to grasp how something works. In other words, we need to connect new information to past experiences. Therefore, the learning process that most of us accept seems rather backward. Instead of feeding people answers immediately, we can supply them with experiences that can help them draw similarities between those experiences and demonstrations and the theoretical elements.

The goal of context in education is to equip us to understand situations and solve problems repeatedly. As humans, we are likely to forget information that is fed to us directly and not connected to our experiences.

Ideally, a learning process would begin with observation. We would show students how to do something or how something works. Then, we explain the theory behind why that thing works. Finally, the student or apprentice would be given the space to apply the principles themselves and work with their own hands.

We also answer questions and respond to comments about:

The value of schooling
MeasureQuick compatibility
Self-driven curiosity
Companies working with educators

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0:21.0	Hey, this is Brian. This is the HVC school podcast. Yes, this is a podcast and I am doing it as a live stream, which is something I told you that I would not do anymore. I told you I would not put up podcasts, but I wanted to try something a little bit different, which is to do a short episode, you'll just do it live, and maybe at the end we can answer some questions. So this is going to be a short episode. It's not going to take very long and if you don't have time to watch it live with me right now, you can watch it later. But feel free to ask questions as I go along and before we get started I want to thank our sponsors. Some of our sponsors who make HVAC school possible I want to
0:34.4	thank carrier carrier.com of course I need to thank refrigeration technologies Mike and
0:38.6	John Pastorello those guys makers of Viper and Nylog and all the really good quality stuff that comes from the needs of the field.
0:46.0	Thank you to those guys and thank you to Speed Clean.
0:49.0	Speed Clean is a new sponsor of the systems out there and you're going to want to have one of these bib kits on your
1:03.6	truck in case you run into needing to clean one makes a lot easier than pulling it
1:07.1	all apart sometimes it makes more sense to pull it apart but we've run to
1:09.9	several cases where it's very difficult to get the blowers out in order to clean them.
1:13.0	So you're going to want to check that out and you can find out more at speedclean.com.
1:18.0	And then also I want to thank Navac.
1:19.7	Navac's been a long time supporter.
1:21.5	You guys know a lot of their products, Navag Global.com, and then Field Piece is a new sponsor as well, and we've been doing a lot with their probes lately. We really like their MR.45 and VP85. that's their recovery machine and their vacuum pump.
1:35.4	So thank you to Field Piece.
1:37.0	All right, so today we're going to talk about my philosophy that I'm developing as it surmount education and the challenge of information.
1:45.0	A lot of this comes from my own experience and a lot of it comes from people like Seth Godin, if you haven't read anything or listen to Seth Godin.
1:51.0	He's a kind of a new thinker as it regards to marketing, but then also business
1:55.3	and education in general. And one of the big things is that I think we have to change our mindset that
2:00.7	education is not for information.
2:03.2	It's not for just packing our heads full of information
2:06.4	because the information is so easily accessible
2:09.7	that you can get the information anytime you need it.
2:12.4	Let's just use an example here. Let's say that... that you can get the information anytime you need it.
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