Learning Models & Styles (Kolb, Bloom, Gardner, et al.)
11 terms across 1 theme — every definition in the Atlas sourced from this manual, with executive examples and counter-moves.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Digital-age learning theory: knowledge lives in networks; the skill is forming and pruning the right connections.
Learners build knowledge by integrating new experience with existing mental structures — not by passive reception.
Four dimensions of learner preference: Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global.
Howard Gardner's theory of distinct intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist).
Four learner preferences derived from Kolb: Activist, Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist.
Four-stage cycle: Concrete Experience → Reflective Observation → Abstract Conceptualization → Active Experimentation.
Single-loop: fix the action. Double-loop: question the governing assumption behind it. Chris Argyris.
Sensory-channel preference framework: Visual, Auditory, Reading/writing, Kinesthetic.
The sweet spot between what a learner can do alone and what they can do with skilled help — where growth actually happens.