Walk-With Learning^TM

Introducing an innovative teaching format specifically created to compliment nearly any teaching style

and:

• improve compliance with homework,
• more efficiently generalize learning,
• automatically adjust intensity to match the learner's pace,
• respond intelligently to learner's responses,
• collect real time information for review, and,
• Walk-With the learner by being virtually available for access wherever they are throughout their day seven days a week.

What is Walk-With Learning?

When can Walk-With Learning help?

Assumptions behind Walk-With Learning

What is Walk-With Learning^TM?

The Walk-With Learning^TM teaching format combines wireless technology and interactive software in ways that enhance teachers or counselors abilities to teach as well as student or client's opportunities to learn. Walk-With Learning was first developed as a way to help people make behavior changes, especially those changes that benefit from being applied to all parts of a person's day. Skills such as effective communication and wellness management can be learned more quickly and efficiently with the Walk-With Learning advantage.

Traditional learning formats such as class room instruction or private sessions are limited in that they do not travel with the student throughout their busy day. Once the lesson is complete, it is up to the student to remember and apply what they have learned. Books and journals travel with a student just fine, but once tucked away, can easily be forgotten. The wireless mobile technology powering the Walk-With Learning teaching format allows the instructor to virtually walk with the student between lessons to help reinforce learning, generalize specific skills, and to track progress or trend responses.

When can Walk-With Learning^TM help?

The Walk-With Learning^TM teaching format is designed to be applied to situations where:

• the learner can benefit from an increase in structure, encouragement, or support,
  
  and/or,
  
  
• the teacher or counselor would like to track or trend real time responses from the learner.

For example, healthier breathing habits can be a part of the positive life changes made by people who experience numerous conditions including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, debilitating stress, conflicted relationships, and chronic anger. Healthy breathing patterns are a key ingredient to feeling relaxed and at ease throughout one's day. Being aware of changes in one's breathing patterns is a reliable way to gauge one's emotional intensity in any given situation. Mental health professionals, pain management specialists, and wellness teachers often teach breathing awareness and better breathing habits as part of treating one of the above conditions or as an integral part of an overall wellness plan.

Students and patients alike often have difficulty remembering to practice or apply what they have learned because of both the general busyness of life or as part of the condition being treated. Using the Walk-With Learning^TM teaching format in software applications such as the Walk-With Assistant^TM can be an invaluable aid at such times. The WWA can remember for the student, or patient, to provide daily random session messages that help increase breath awareness, provide opportunities to consciously change to a healthier breathing pattern, and record perceived progress towards mastering healthier breathing habits.

Assumptions behind Walk-With Learning^TM

The Walk-With Learning^TM teaching format is built on the following assumptions:

1. Learning opportunities spread into small chunks throughout the day promotes generalized learning.
2. Skills practiced regularly are mastered more quickly.
3. Dynamically interactive teaching formats that provide individualized structure, support, and encouragement based off of learner responses provide efficiencies in learning.
4. Information collected at the time of a lived experience is the most reliable. Conversely, information remembered about lived experiences becomes less reliable as time passes.