Teach, Don't Talk

shh, this won’t hurt a bit

teach, don’t talkkristen gallagher - devsigner 2015

about me & why i’m here

i love to teach. more than that, i love helping other people teach stuff.

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about you & why you’re here

turn to your neighbor (say hi).

tell your neighbor the last thing you remember from someone’s talk.

the plan today

our only goals are to:

● structure content to help people learn a concept● create multiple ways for people to learn a concept● be ourselves (but still give awesome talks)

you’re great and you should teach.

why teach, not talk?

teaching = creating a foundation to grow fromtalking = boring.

but how???

change your talk into scaffolding.

and scaffolding is?

...a strong structure, aka:

not this.

scaffolding: super important

= how people learn new things.

(give people a shelf & a ladder.)

break up the content

create digestible concept chunks by:

1. applying a logic2. matching content to that logic3. using bloom’s taxonomy

let’s try that out.

topic: history of SaaS companies1. applying a logic: chronological2. matching content to that logic

-info on how they started (1990-now)-info on how they grew-info on what they’re doing now

3. using bloom’s taxonomy

excuse me? bloom who?

EvaluationSynthesisAnalysisApplicationComprehensionKnowledge

excuse me? bloom who?

Judge itSummarize itUnderstand itUse itGet itKnow it

back to our example:

topic: history of SaaS companies3. using bloom’s taxonomy

give the infohelp them get itdo an example (growth patterns?)share example, teach it to a partner, add to knowledge base

multiple ways of learning something

believe it or not, some people aren’t like you.

Type Means Not Okay:

Visual-Spatial pictorially/spatially inclined just adding clipart

Bodily-Kinesthetic better when acting it out making everyone do team building activities

Musical sensitive to rhythm + sound playing music in your talk

Interpersonal likes to work with others having only group work

Intrapersonal likes to work independently having only independent work

Linguistic ‘auditory’ + likes words having too many words

Logical-Mathematical likes reasoning + formulas only using math/code

putting it together

some basics: cut the noise.

it’s really important to write big.

it’s also really important not to use comic sans.

finally, it’s also really important not to be distracting.

accessibility

plan for:● vision & hearing impairment● community rules & respect● people who may learn differently than you

checking your work

try to give your talk to a friend!check for understanding.ask for feedback on specific items.

if you want to talk teach about it

kristen@edifyedu.com

@kristenmaeve

image credits: seanheritage.com and portland sun times