Your Intelligence Makeover:
An Easy Way to Learn All You Need to Know
by Ed Droge, Ed.D

Importance of Making Knowledge Accessible

• google 'accessible knowledge' - 64 million responses
  
• knowledge - obtained without undue insuperable obstruction
• unknowledge - not obtained
  • overlap, relativity - knowledge is accessible to some while at the same time inaccessible to others
    • i.e., ancient civilizations (insuperable obstruction - while right now information cannot be found, it might become found)

Undue Obstruction of Learner, Knowledge

• Structure
  • some knowledge (i.e., the Internet) is without structure
  • knowledge needs to be separated/categorized (i.e., bookstore/library)
• Direction
  • goals and paths are not viable
• Self
  • intrapersonal intelligence (how much one knows oneself)
  • lack of confidence, skills, & motivation
  • individual learning styles (i.e., visual learners)
• Volume
  • size, time (i.e., Internet responses can be overwhelming, not enough time)
• Density
• Prerequisite
  • need course X before course Y
• Environment
  • learner in room with distractions
  • temperature in classroom
• Teaching
  • teachers present obstacles to the learner
    • (i.e., using poor techniques, assigning too much work to be accomplished, not speaking loud enough, bad hand writing)
    • best intentions mat still create inaccessible knowledge

Visual, structured forms can make knowledge more accessible

Subjective pronoun/ Objective pronoun
I..................................Me
We.............................Us
She............................Her
They..........................Them

• There is nothing wrong with obstacles. However, undue obstruction (or unnecessary obstacles) do not need to be present.
• Both sides must be aware to get the material across. The teaching community must stop and think about these things.

Increase reading speed

• an obstacle - too much volume
  • i.e., five teachers each assigning one book/ week
  • giant obstacle, overwhelming
• when we learn to read, we make an eyestop (i.e., 12 words, 12 eyestops)
  • train yourself to see more than one word at a time
    • this is possible to accomplish (train yourself through practicing - same as a violin)
    • if you train yourself to read three words at a time, you have tripled your reading speed
  • the need led to the method - attacked one of the problems (volume - size and time)