Learning Battle Cards: Anatomy of a card 3/28

Introduction

The cards are all structured in the same way, yet they do not represent the same type of concept, method, tool or activity:

You will find card that will represent:

- a learning activity like "note taking" or "repetition";

- a teaching technique like "metaphor"

- a teaching method or situation like "seminar",

- a training object or resource like "simulation" or "book"

- a communication modality like "e-mail" or "audioconference"

- an organisational or community set up like "Community of Practice"

- a pedagogical accessory or device like "Board"

The Learning Battle Cards (TM) have two sides

On one side you find the following information:

A symbol - which remains the same in all languages- , the name of the training method, an icon and a cloud of tags

On the other side

On the top left

Symbol and name of training method are repeated

The granularity of the method, which requires some explanation of the levels.

- the full circle in the middle represents the smallest sub-part of the learning process, for example "check-list"

- the middle circle represent a granularity level in which the method could a significant part of the learning process, but not all of it, like in "facilitation" or "teach back"

- the outer circle represent the broadest possible spectrum of use of the learning method in the learning process. In fact in theory, as I understand it, all the needs of the learning process could be answered using this single method, just as it is the case with "project based learning"

A few methods, like "Peer-to-peer learning" can be used at all three levels

On the top right

- the seven points represent the possible usefulness of the method at different stages of the learning process as depicted in the framework, as you will see in the next article (anatomy of the framework).

These are the following:

- Analysis,

- Awareness,

- Knowledge,

- Skills,

- Attitudes,

- Implementation,

- Measurement,

In the middle

The profile part is constituted of three pairs related to learning situations:

- self-learning or with peers - invidual vs group dimension,

- sync(honous) or async(hronous) - time dimension,

- formal or informal - Learning context degree of formality 

The bottom half

The bottom half of the card is consituted of 5 "powerbars"

Two of them are from the perspectif of the educator (or trainer, designer)

- Production effort

- Production time

One is from the perspective of the learning process efficiency

- Learning power

The two final ones are from the perspective of the learner / trainee

- Engagement

- Difficulty of use

....To be continued

Tomorrow: Overview of the LBC Framework (Context and Process)

Previous articles

Article 1: Why should you use the Learning Battle Cards (TM)?

Article 2: How to get familiar with the Learning Battle Cards and Framework (TM)?