Á atenção de professores, formadores e não só

Neste postal escrevi sobre o livro de John Medina "Brain Rules". Encontrei uma versão do livro em pdf que rapidamente devorei no ecrã do meu computador.
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Encomendei o livro em papel para agora o poder ler e sublinhar com calma. Entretanto, enquanto aguardo a sua chegada, comecei a leitura de um outro livro que me parece muito interessante para professores e, sobretudo, para formadores (os alunos não podem votar com os pés, os formandos podem, daí que o mercado da formação não financiada seja muito mais exigente).
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Quem procura melhorar o seu desempenho como formador pode encontrar boas pistas em "Multimedia Learning" (segunda edição de 2009) de Richard Mayer.
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Um extracto:
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"... the knowledge-construction view is that multimedia learning is a sense-making activity in which the learner seeks to build a coherent mental representation from the presented material. Unlike information - which is an objective commodity that can be moved from one mind to another - knowledge is personally constructed by the learner and cannot be delivered in exactly the same form from one mind to another. This is why two learners can be presented with the same multimedia message and come away with different learning outcomes. Second, according to the knowledge-construction view, the learner's job is to make sense of the presented material; thus, the learner is an active sense-maker who experiences a multimedia presentation and tries to organize and integrate the presented material into a coherent mental representation.
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Third, the teacher's job is to assist the learner in this sense-making process; thus, the teacher is a cognitive guide who provides needed guidance to support the learner's cognitive processing. Fourth, the goal of multimedia presentations is not only to present information, but also to provide guidance for how to process the presented information - that is, for determining what to pay attention to, how to mentally organize it, and how to relate it to prior knowledge. Finally, the underlying metaphor is that of multimedia as a helpful communicator; according to this metaphor, multimedia is a sense-making guide, that is, an aid to knowledge construction."
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Espero voltar a este livro mais vezes.