# What we hope for here:
These tools and methods will precisely fit the people who want to learn for themselves.
We hope to develop a pattern that bears repeating.
We hope to assist learners to be profoundly individual in their learning.
We are adapting Christopher Alexander's pattern from "A Pattern Language" to individual learning.
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# Learning Pattern for Topics
* [ ] **Title** What is a good title for this subject--from your point of view?
* [ ] **Image** What image conveys the essence for this subject.`
* [ ] **Contributes to** What other subjects are elucidated by understanding this particular subject?
* [ ] **Answers** What is the subject an answer to?
* [ ] **Content & Context** What do we know about the subject?
* [ ] **Illustration** What illustration or diagram conveys the subject?
* [ ] **Informed by** What other subjects elucidate this subject?
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We are providing another pattern for delineating Your Personal Context for each subject (object/dynamic) of your learning. How does this subject/object/dynamic
# A proposed pattern for an individual's situation relevant to the topic?
* [ ] WHEN: (History, Sequence)
* [ ] WHERE: (Geography, Setting)
* [ ] WHY: (Paradigms, Purposes, Goals)
* [ ] WHO: (Politics, Participation, People)
* [ ] HOW: (Science, Dynamics, Design, Engineering)
* [ ] WHAT: (Production, Use, Effects)