Six qualities for success in learning

Kris Baldwin, Education Technology Specialist

What is stickiness?

Mental duct tape—like mental velcro but stronger!

The Kidney Heist and other urban legends

Halloween Candy—from 1958 to 1985, there were no “candy from strangers” related deaths

Successful is predictable.

Photo from Simon Davison on flickr

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You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.

Created in Wordle Page 16

The Curse of Knowledge

Partner up Tappers—you will tap out a

song Listeners—you will try to guess

the song

Results

How many of you thought you did a great job of tapping out the song?

How many of you correctly guessed the song?

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Simple

No plan survives contact with the enemy. Find the core Translate the core using the SUCCESs

checklist In education, Wiggins and McTighe call

this The BIG Idea Explains the need to “unpack” standards

The Goldilocks PrinciplePage 27

Clarifying Content Priorities

Worth being

familiar with

Important to know &

do

Big Ideas

Nice to know

Foundational concepts skills

Big Picture

Online Resource: www.bigideas.org

Simple = Core + Compact

A pomelo is the largest citrus fruit. The rind is very thick but soft and easy to peel away. The resulting fruit has a light yellow to coral pink flesh and can vary from juicy to slightly dry and from seductively spicy-sweet to tangy and tart.

Tell your neighbor if you think pomelo would

taste good mixed half and half with orange juice.

A pomelo is basically a supersized grapefruit with a very thick and soft rind.

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Remember…

Simple is hard. Unexpected takes effort and

creativity. Concrete is fairly easy, and

incredibly effective.

The villain for Concrete is easily overcome. It’s forgetfulness. We forget to be concrete and tend to slip back into abstract-speak.

Unexpected

Surprise—gets attention Interest—keeps attention

Avoid gimmickry; create a GAP Gaps between what we know and what we

want to know create curiosity. K-W-L Charts Open the gap by creating a mental itch.

http://www.aef.com/exhibits/social_responsibility/ad_council/2434

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Concrete

Remember the capital of Kansas Remember the first line of “Hey Jude” Remember the Mona Lisa Remember the house where you spent most of

your childhood Remember the definition of “truth” Remember the definition of “watermelon”

Talk to a neighbor about how it felt to remember these different things.

Author’s Note: If the phrase “Hey Jude” drew a blank, please exchange this book for a Beatles album. You’ll be happier. Page 109

Concrete

Write down as many things you can think of that are white in color.

Write down as many white things in your refrigerator as you can think of.

Most people can list as many white things in their fridge, as they can list white things in general, despite the fact that our fridges do not normally encompass a large part of the universe.

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Credibility

Personal Experience Authority

Status Honesty and Trustworthiness

Details Statistics illustrate relationships Generate internal credibility

Testable Credentials Where’s the beef?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0

Beyond War

How to convince people that the nuclear weapons race was out of control?

Hiroshima—1 bomb

US nuclear sub—10 bombs

Worldwide in 1985—5,000 bombs

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Emotional

The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don’t yet care about and something they do care about.

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Rokia is desperately poor and faces the threat of severe hunger or even starvation. Her life will be changed for the better as a result of your gift.

$1.14 Donation$1.14 Donation $2.38 Donation$2.38 Donation

WIFFY

What’s in it for me? How are we ever going to use this?Imagine that a company offers its employees a

$1,000 bonus if they meet certain targets. There are three ways of presenting the bonus to the employees:

1. Think of what the $1000 means—down payment on a new car, or home improvement you’ve been wanting.

2. Think of the increased security of having that $1000 in the bank for a rainy day.

3. Think of what the $1000 means—the company recognizes how important you are to its overall performance. It doesn’t spend money for nothing.

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Maslow understood sticky.

Stories

Stories are told and retold because They contain wisdom. They inspire us to act. They are part entertainment

and part instruction.

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Stories

Stories = Simulations Visualizations work

because they stimulate the same regions of the brain as if the person were actually doing the activity. Focus on process, not the

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Stories

Plots: Challenge, Connection, and Creativity David and Goliath The Good Samaritan MacGyver

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The Villains-A Review

Natural tendency to bury the lead.

Tendency to focus on the presentation, rather than the content.

Facing down decision paralysis

The Curse of Knowledge

For an idea to stick, it has to make the audience…

Pay attention. Understand and

remember it. Agree or Believe Care Be able to act on it.

Unexpected

Concrete Credible Emotional Story

Make the audience… SUCCESs Checklist

This presentation and links to resources included are available

online at

http://kbaldwin.tie.wikispaces.net/presentations