{"id":164,"date":"2011-09-05T23:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-09-05T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T23:03:48","slug":"learning-a-new-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Learning a New Task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 5 year old son Aidan just learned to ride a bike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AidanFace2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165 aligncenter\" title=\"Learning to Ride a Bike\" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AidanFace2-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AidanFace2-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AidanFace2-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AidanFace2-1.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We noticed that there were 5 or so dimensions to learning to ride a bike:\u00a0 steering, balance, braking, pedaling, and staying balanced when bragging to strangers on how great you were doing.\u00a0 We also noticed that it is difficult to attend to all 5 when first learning because none of them are automatic.\u00a0 I have observed the exact same thing with learning to dance and dog agility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It got me thinking about my own teaching and observing the teaching of others.\u00a0 How many times have teachers asked you to attend to many different things at once?\u00a0 It does seem better, if you can, to work more sequentially through different aspects of a new skill.\u00a0 This is possible even in biking through the use of a balance bike or just coasting down a hill without pedaling, which works on balance.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I also recommend, in my robotics courses to teachers, that you don&#8217;t have to have students, especially young students, do all the tasks in a WeDo lesson, for example.\u00a0 You can choose to focus on building, programming, or the experiment parts of the Lego WeDo curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 5 year old son Aidan just learned to ride a bike. 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