Education, Fallacies, and Skeuomorphs: Why Make Learning Harder?

Earthquake Reporting

First Hour of Earthquake

Earthquake Photos

Buy It Now…

Medicine / WebMD

Dating / eHarmony – 20%

Banking / eBanking

Friendships

Secrets

Education

Schools: Anti-Connected? Cell Phones Laptops Collaboration Wolfram Alpha Wikipedia –Cliff Notes

Education…Connected?

Google Project Glass

Utterli

Online Gym Class

Teaching Perspective

Dr. Jeff D Borden

Learning Today

Agenda Reform Asking The Right Questions Create – Consume – Remix - Share

We Know Reform…

Tyson says its Krisp N’ Krunchy patties, “…yield up to 7,200 EXTRA servings per diverted truck of chicken compared to similar chicken patties from other manufacturers.” Tyson Website – “Tools for Chicken Reprocessing”

We Know Research…

We Know (more) About the Brain…

Pattern Recognition

Hidden Patterns

Dr John Medina “As I was writing Brain Rules, it hit me [that] if you wanted to design a learning environment that was directly opposed to what the brain is naturally good at doing, you would design something like a classroom.”

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Retention Aids Based On Brain Research

Neural Coupling

Problem Based Learning (AKA Flipped Classrooms)

Technology Based Learning

Augmented Reality

Game Based Learning

Life Raft Dilemma

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Gamification Works

Karl Kapp …the strategy of “using game-based mechanics and game-based thinking to engage people, motivate action, promote learning and solve problems.”

JSB: WOW L-70

Guild Master WoW Guild Master = total-immersion course in leadership

Guild Master: Real World Skills Attracting Evaluating Recruiting new members Creating apprenticeship programs Orchestrating group strategy Adjudicating disputes

That’s SO 1992… What’s the best way to lecture & assess my (9, 90, 900) students in class? –Sincerely, 1992

Connecting To Perception Internal Perception What you believe to be true. External Perception What others believe to be true about you. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor Test…

Mark Edmundson

Eliminating Diversity

Dr. Eric Mazur

Lecture vs Sleep: Eric Mazur

National Survey of Student Engagement, USA 2006 Lecturing

Academically Adrift (Arum / Roksa, 2011) “….but for a large proportion of them [students] the gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and written communication are either exceedingly small or empirically nonexistent.” 45% : 2 Years 36% : At Graduation

Common College Outcome Communication: –Nonverbal Haptics Objectics Proxemics Chronemics Optics Vocalics Kinesics –Mirroring

Kinesic Mirroring: Modern Communication 2007 NYTimes “The majority of communication in the workplace occurs over and chat today.” 2009 WSJ: “…leading more and more Fortune 500 companies to ask if future employees have taken an online class.”

That’s SO 2002… What’s the best way to lecture & assess my (9, 90, 900) students in class? –Sincerely, 1992 What’s the best way to do what I normally do in the classroom online? –Sincerely, 2002

Online Education: At Best

Online Education: At Worst

e-vangelists vs C.A.V.E. People

That’s SO 2012… What’s the best way to lecture & assess my (9, 90, 900) students in class? –Sincerely, 1992 What’s the best way to do what I normally do in the classroom online? –Sincerely, 2002 What’s the best way to learn? –Sincerely, 2012

Harvard Assessment Seminars

Confluence Ask

National Sales Meeting68

Bringing It Altogether We are connected… …and we know more about learning than ever… …so let’s not rely on old, ineffective methods… Let’s strive for the best ways to educate… …through cognitive science… …student choice… …collaboration… …authentic tension… …and diversity.

Edu-Blogger: YouTube Video: Have You Been Paying Attention?Have You Been Paying Attention? “…Has anyone seen this garbage? Technology simply promotes copy & paste! Educators must teach them to be original, have original thought, and do original work! Imagine if society worked this way. We’d still be hoping someone would invent the rolling stone so as to create a wheel. Imagine a world where using other people’s work to create your own was ok. We’d never have gotten past the toaster to see the benefits of the microwave. We’d never have gotten past swing music to experience amazing original works like Elton John’s “The Lion King” or other seminal works…”

Remix, Sample or Steal? Can You Feel The love Tonight? Save tonight, fight the break of dawn, come tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll be gone… You’re beautiful! If I could, then I would, I’ll go wherever you will go, way up high, or down low, I’ll go wherever you will go… And she will be loved – and she will be loved… I can’t stand to fly, I’m not that naïve, I’m just out to find, the better part of me, I’m more than a bird, I’m more than a plane… Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe We’re not gonna take it, no we ain’t gonna take it – we’re not gonna take it anymore Wherever you go – whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you Just a small town girl – living in a lonely world – she took the midnight train going anywhere There was a time when I was so broken hearted I think we’re alone now, there doesn’t seem to be anyone around See the stone set in her eyes, see the thorn twist in her side, and I’m waiting for you, with or without you Take on me, Take me up, I’ll be gone, ????? On your mark, get set, and go now – gotta dream and we just know now I come from a land down under, where women roll and men thunder… When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be 1790?!?!?!

Remember…

Thank You Dr. Jeff D Borden