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Learning Isn’t Complete Until It Shows Up in Action

How the learning loop moves from perceiving information in the environment through attention, working memory, and long-term memory to observable action.

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I’ve come to learn that our learning system loop starts with our perceptions from the world or environment around us and travels journey to end up closing with us performing an action back to the world or environment around

In a nutshell it’ll move through the following stations

World → Perception → Attention → Working Memory ↔ Long-Term Memory → Action → World

Now everything that comes before the action I’ve studied all the way from You have already studied much of the left/middle side: Sensory store being where what we detect resides , Attention being the bridge that selects with the information goes to our Working memory, to Working memory where we process these information consciously, to how we connect new information through elaboration to how we bring knowledge back through the process of retreieval and lastly understanding what we know vs what we can do (Declarative/Precedural)

What Clark is sealing for me now is how Eventually, all of the above has to end up coming out as action. That is the motor part.

And “motor” is much broader than physical movement. As it could be ;speaking typing, clicking, facial expressions, hand movements, performing a task or even making a decision that leads to an action.

So, for an instructional designer, performance is the observable end of the learning loop.

Animated diagram titled “Our learning system loop opens with perception and closes with our performance.” Six labelled stages are arranged in a circle around a central thought cloud: world, sensory store, attention, working memory, long-term memory, and action (motor). Dashed arrows draw the loop one step at a time, and the cloud shows a small scene for each stage: World: a globe surrounded by sights, sounds and text. Sensory store: the eye, ear, hand, nose and mouth take it in, shown as a person picking up signals. Attention: a spotlight singles out one item, a star. Working memory: a head with turning gears and a light bulb processes it. Long-term memory: working memory exchanges information with long-term memory, shown as ideas orbiting a person’s head. Action (motor): the person types at a keyboard, producing output. The arrow then returns from action to the world, closing the loop, and the animation repeats.

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Where this comes from

  1. Check out "Learning Science" by Clark Quinn — If you design learning, teach, or train people, you need to understand what is actually happening when someone learns. Learning happens at the neural level, but we design for it at the cognitive level. There’s a lot more in Clark Quinn’s book that I can’t share because of **intellectual property**. Get the book and experience the learning yourself. 📚You Would Love It!
  2. Check out "40 L&D Stakeholder Challenges: Of L&D Leaders, Practitioners, Clients, and Learners" by Guy W. Wallace — This book shares the answers I got from my EPPI-PACT Guidance Bot. The free EPPI-PACT Guidance Bot is a digital, interactive knowledge-transfer resource designed to help Learning and Development (L&D) practitioners, performance consultants, and business leaders master and apply Guy W. Wallace’s Performance Improvement and Performance Based L&D methodologies.
  3. Check out " 30 books made available as free PDFs" by Guy W. Wallace — Guy shares his Proven Resources for Adopting/Adapting to Improve Your Measurable Impact via Performance Based Enterprise Instruction – Performance Guides & Learning Experiences
  4. To Learn More Join the "Learning Development Accelerator" — Click the link to join the Amazing Learning Development Accelerator Group Where practice meets evidence