[Trainer-Talk] Philosophical discussion -- can you teach people to follow instructions?

[Julie Adkins]

Most people I work with will not take charge of their own learning. I give them all kinds of resources for continued education and they won't bother. It feels like laziness to me. Or could it be fear?  Are people really so busy?  I know they are not. 

Julie Adkins


> On Sep 15, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Deborah Armstrong via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> My co-worker is able-bodied. He has several advanced college degrees. He is fit, and handsome and half my age.
> 
> His 16GB Galaxy 5 has no more room for storing data. This is a regular occurrence; he comes to me nearly every week in a panic about it. In desperation, he bought a 128GB SD card, which, when we looked through his storage this morning, has over 120G free still.
> 
> I have located many pages, Youtube videos and the like to assist him, but his phone is filled with private data, which I believe is why he asks me, the blind person to assist, because there is no worry that I will actually see any of it.
> 
> This page:
>                http://phandroid.com/expand-galaxy-s5-storage/
> for example has clear and accessible instructions for solving all his issues. He doesn't need it to be accessible but I chose this page to show to the list.
> 
> Anyway, all my efforts have been for naught. Despite his P.H.D. in psychology, he seems psychologically incapable of following instructions.
> 
> I guess what I'm wondering here is what techniques do you all use to teach people how to take charge of their own learning? I work in a community college with disabled students who are often terribly dependent! This example of my co-worker is only the most dramatic because he's otherwise so competent.
> 
> --Debee
> 
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