{"id":237,"date":"2009-02-05T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/if-you-dont-know-how-to-help-you-can-still-do-good-by-getting-out-of-the-way\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:03:57","slug":"if-you-dont-know-how-to-help-you-can-still-do-good-by-getting-out-of-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/if-you-dont-know-how-to-help-you-can-still-do-good-by-getting-out-of-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don&#8217;t Know How to Help, You Can Still Do Good by Getting Out of the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Learning happens when attention is focused.  &#8230;<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t have a good theory of learning, then you can still get it to happen by helping the person focus.  One of the ways you can help a person focus is by removing interference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Alan Kay, <em>Doing With Images Makes Symbols<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning happens when attention is focused. &#8230; If you don&#8217;t have a good theory of learning, then you can still get it to happen by helping the person focus. One of the ways you can help a person focus is by removing interference. &#8211;Alan Kay, Doing With Images Makes Symbols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8],"tags":[333,334,219],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes","category-usability","tag-alan-kay","tag-doing-with-images-makes-symbols","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}