iLearners Supports Critical Thinking Practice
We provide mentoring and weekly content on the below skills. What will you add to your Wins List after you add constructive content to your weekly information stream?
Learning is a process, and learning is in the interaction. You bring the questions related to learning, and we support through mentoring.
Study skills, note-taking
Critical thinking skills
Internal motivation skills
Self-leadership, team leadership, facilitation skills
Read below to see how iLearners can help you understand some learning processes to increase critical thinking skills and increase academic/career progress using the questions-based Socratic method. Following are some of our favorite quotes that we build off of.
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” - Socrates
“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” - Ignacio Estrada
"Teaching is listening, learning is talking." - Deborah Meier
"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers" - Josef Albers
“A problem well stated is half solved” - Charles Kettering
“Variety is the very spice of life." - William Cowper
iLearners utilizes the Socratic method of teaching, where many times questions are answered with additional questions, suggestions, and your own research encouraging an agile experimenting mindset/approach. iLearners builds on concepts like the following quotes: "Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers" - Josef Albers, and “A problem well stated is half solved” - Charles Kettering.
Helping individuals develop their own learning & teaching facilitation skills and strategies, to grow the joy of self-directed learning in themselves, students, and teams/families.
Supporting increasing independent learning skills and techniques, knowledge, intrinsic motivation, critical thinking, encouraging asking questions and note-taking, focus and memory.
Building a personal culture of agility, accountability, rapport building, experimenting mindset, resourceful, and continuous learning, while being aware of what we may be forgetting or regressing on.
With so much information, distractions, and content available, it's easy for many of us to lose sight of the big picture, and lose the practice to build our critical thinking abilities. iLearners believes writing questions and notes in your own words is one of the best ways to learn something sustainably. These skills also help you work better with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies, and can supplement working better with other leaders, teachers, and tutors.
It's similar to physical exercising: iLearners provides a place for asking questions, note-taking, exercising independent thought, practicing critical thinking, multi-perspective thinking, contextualization, tracking your self-assessed metrics and progress, and healthy habits tracking (such as tracking enough sleep, physical exercise, breathing exercises, drinking sufficient water, quite time, and nutrition - as these habits greatly impacts learning).
How much of the day's thoughts, decisions and activities do we use for building sustainable skills for ourselves and our teams/families? How much of our week's attention goes into negating or forgetting what we learned?
iLearners offers the following services:
iLearners subscription includes access to request a group call up to once a week on topics/questions submitted through email. Subscribers submit suggestions for topics or questions, and the week's calls will aim to address as many questions/topics as possible, or during the following week's call. To support focus on the content of the topics/questions, the call will be audio only, no video. Subscribers email the topics or questions they would like to discuss to [email protected] by Sunday evening, and a Zoom meeting link will be provided to the subscribers who asked questions for that week by Monday evening. Subscriber's who ask questions after Sunday will be sent a Zoom link for the following week's call. Calls are typically scheduled for Wednesdays at 6PM US Central Standard Time (CST), and may change to different times. Calls on average can be about 20 minutes long, could be shorter, and could be maximum an hour long depending on the topics and participants' questions.
iLearners offers online Study Skills Tutoring in Math and Physics for students and/or for parents, with emphasis on learning to teach yourself. If you're interested, please call or email us with your request details, and please include the student's age and the subject(s).
We'll contact you back to setup a free 30 minute call to discuss the skills that you'd like support in, overview of the iLearners mentoring approach, and determine if iLearners is a good fit for you.
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