Simulation-based reinforcement is critical. This is the most important lesson of all. If you want learners to understand, remember, and apply new skills, they have to devote a lot of time to practice. Ideally, it will take the form of realistic simulations with opportunities for plenty of feedback, although even verbal scenarios can add value. No alarm, but apnea light is turned on.
Monitor loses power when electricity goes out during a storm.
Schank points out that the way true learning takes place is by trying and failing. If a computer enables us to fail in a safe environment, over and over again, we'll likely be able to perform well in a real-life situation. After our instructor left, I told the head nurse about the bad training. I asked her to notify the doctors that they could discharge us, but we weren't leaving until we were trained properly in infant CPR and use of the monitor. Thankfully, my assertiveness yielded a second round of instruction, which went very well.