If you take your company public or prepare for a stock price drop, you're breaking the law.
Not allowed.
Insider trading; naughty.
Luckily, with internships, insider trading is exactly the way to go.
Allow me to explain:
In the context of learning skills or knowledge during an internship, thereâs a concept called âgenerative learning.â
Every intern has a certain degree of prior knowledge when performing tasks; some know very little, others quite a lot.
With generative learning, you let an intern work with the information they already have. The intern produces a result on their own. This forces the intern to connect their available knowledge to your assignment.
Think of writing a letter or wiring a socket.
This method of transferring knowledge has the great advantage of challenging the student to recall their available information ('âwhat do I already know about thisâ, âwhat can I already doâ) and connect it to new information.
Working with an intern? Find out what they already know or master and have them perform a task based on that knowledge. This way, they link their existing knowledge to the new situation. This is excellent for developing new knowledge and skills; moreover, it creates mental connections that make it easier for the student to recall necessary knowledge in other situations.
Three ways to do this are:
Think aloud: Have the intern verbalize what they are doing. This connects the task at hand to their existing knowledge and vice versa.
Predict: What would be needed to perform this action or successfully complete this task? This way, the intern discovers for themselves what is needed to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.
Draw it out: By having the intern draw out a task, you force them to create a mental picture of the task and the end result. This helps the intern to reason and think logically.
With this approach, you motivate the intern to connect existing knowledge to the new situation or circumstances.
You are trading on insider knowledge.