how to improve learning
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A short presentation on education reform. How a small changing in our teaching can have a profound impact on how much our students learnTRANSCRIPT
HOW DO WE IMPROVE LEARNING?
Educating about education
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TRADITIONAL EDUCATION What’s wrong with it?
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Putting kids and books in proximity and hoping for osmosis
It’s just not very effective
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THE PROBLEM?We need to learn ideas
Ideas are hard to study
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WHY IS THAT HARD?We seem to learn ideas by solving problems
Using information to solve specific problems
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QUESTION + INFORMATION = ANSWER + IDEA
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THE SOLUTION?Don’t I know that formulae from somewhere?
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It is remarkably similar to fictional mystery stories
Like a Dan Brown book
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CAN WE USE IT TO TEACH?
Yes
If we just restructure the narrative of teaching
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Old style:information = lesson
(learn information, not ideas)
New style:information + mystery or problem = lesson
(get a problem and some information, solve it to learn)
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WHY IS THAT BETTER?
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NEW NARRATIVE EXAMPLEHow the clouds can tell us if it’s going to rain
(information about clouds; 3 basic groups of clouds, look different because of their height)
Which cloud will bring rain?
(Clues to the answer in the information)
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THE RESULT?
Used information to solve a problem
To solve the problem understanding about the idea must have occurred
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WHY IS THIS BETTER?Ideas are easier to remember then facts
(Cognitive science has arrived at the understanding that semantic memory is a lot more effective then data memory)
Therefore:
Students will learn more, and remember it for longer
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JESPER BYLUNDIs an interaction and human centric designer
Find/follow me at:[email protected]/JesperBylund
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