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Saturday, August 24, 2002
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/AUG02_Issue/article03.html A Design For Learning: The Escalator Guy Bensusan INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: An escalator is a moving set of stairs. Metaphorically, I picked this name for the twelve-step assignment stairway I use in my courses because ESCALATOR implies two things; one can be carried up by the mechanism or also exert an effort to climb. In considering the analogy of being carried upward, each learning activity, experience and subsequent written report is based on what was done before while anticipating what is coming next. This connection is consciously cultivated through all twelve steps; the very act of DOING each assignment lifts the learner level by level into higher planes of understanding. If the learner chooses actively to climb, he or she can ascend to the top faster, with better connective understanding and greater personal satisfaction....
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