Philly Edtech RETHINK session final
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Brian S. McGowan, Ph.D., discusses the importance of designing effective learning experiences that address the complexities of learner behavior rather than solely relying on learning theories. He emphasizes the need for incorporating motivational nudges to encourage actions like note-taking and collaboration in educational technology. The document outlines actionable strategies for educators to better support learning through thoughtful design and interventions.
Philly Edtech RETHINK session final
- 1. Brian S. McGowan, PhD Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer Why Learning Theory Won’t Drive Change? April 10th 2014
- 2. Brian S. McGowan, PhD Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer Have you under-designed your learning experiences? April 10th 2014
- 3. If everyone knows that walking a few flights of stairs a day is better for your health, why do so few people use them? 3 Under-designed exercise
- 4. 4 Why do so many struggle to get up and out of bed each day despite any number of alarms we may set for ourselves? What if you had to do 25 curls before your alarm clock turned off? Under-designed ‘wake-up’
- 5. What if instead of telling us how to behave they would ‘show’ us how to do so? Under-designed Conservation
- 6. 6 Or better yet, what if it were more fun to invest our attention wisely? Under-designed Cleanliness
- 7. How would you design things if you accepted the role of Architect of the big picture? Under-designed Discipline
- 8. The underappreciated science of learner-centric design!
- 10. Disfluency Which of the wordswords on this slide do you think learnerslearners will remember the most?
- 11. Symbols
- 12. Nudges and Memory 40.5 38.1 31.8 0 10 20 30 40 50 Smashed Bumped Contacted Estimated Speed (MPH) “How fast were the cars going when they “____”?”
- 13. So what are the actions we need to design for in EdTech?
- 14. #1 Note Taking
- 15. 15 #2 Reminders
- 16. 16 #3 Questions
- 18. Learning Actions Nudges: Note-Taking and Reminders 18
- 19. Learning Actions Nudges: Social Triggering
- 20. How should we rethink edtech? An educator’s (new) obligations: 1.Acknowledge that learning and performance is influenced in complex yet controllable ways 2.Design the structure around your content that enables learning, and 3.Begin to effectively nudge your learners to take their natural learning actions in simple and efficient ways… 20
- 21. Brian S. McGowan, PhD Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer Why Learning Theory Won’t Drive Learning? April 10th 2014
Editor's Notes
- #2: Thank you… My Name is Brian McGowan… I am here this evening to tell you a story with 2 halves The first half builds introduces a few striking examples of how thinking and behavior can be manipulated in meaningful ways… And the second half will provide some context as to how these new ideas are relevant to learning and educational technology
- #3: Thank you… My Name is Dr. Brian McGowan… I am here this evening to tell you a story with 2 halves The first half builds introduces a few striking examples of how thinking and behavior can be manipulated in meaningful ways… And the second half will provide some context as to how these new ideas are relevant to learning and educational technology
- #4: Our story begins with a classic example a decision we are each confronted with many times a week…
- #5: Our second example is another decision that we each struggle with each day….and another example of how to a simple solution may be underdesigned.
- #10: Changes in physical strength and ‘performance’…pink leaves me ‘depleted’ – locker room must be
- #11: Learners performed 23% on a test when questions were posed in disfluent font…
- #12: 2x’s the number of students completed spatial challenging puzzles in the presences of the illuminated light bulb imagery…
- #13: 20% Difference Speeding or not speeding
- #15: http://aimdanismanlik.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/708b71e2d7e7992ba9fbdd90d3d32743.jpg
- #22: Thank you… My Name is Brian McGowan… I am here this evening to tell you a story with 2 halves The first half builds for us a foundation and ensures that we each embrace an entirely new way of understanding why education so often fails. And the second half will provide an introduction to how we at ArcheMedX are leveraging technology to reengineer the process of learning and education.