How an Automated Checklist Can Improve Learning by Smart-Tutor-App.
Our living world, great and increasing complexity day by day, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. Finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. Checklists break down complex tasks and also ensure consistency and efficiency if more than one person is working on a project. If checklists are so effective for airline pilots, skyscraper construction teams, heart surgeons and any IT-Project Teams, why shouldn’t Students use them as well?
Checklists can benefit students in the following ways:
- For younger students, simple, task-based checklists can help them become accustomed to following steps, adding order to the relative chaos of learning, and offering a pathway to accomplishing complex tasks. For older students, they can do all of the above, and also serve as memory aids as they work on unfamiliar or complicated tasks.
- Checklists help students feel in control and hold them accountable by removing obstacles to success such as “I didn’t know we were supposed to do that,” or “I forgot to do that part.”
- Checklists keep students on task. Rather than losing focus and forgetting where they left off or abandoning the task altogether, they always know where they are in a task or project. (Or should know.)
- Checklists can help communicate the details or goals of an Assignment or Project to other teachers, parents, or relevant community members.
