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This talk was originally created for a Philly Edtech meetup to be held on April 10th 2014. The goal was to highlight why educators may be under-designing their education and new ways they should think about their role in learning.
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Brian S. McGowan, PhDCo-Founder &
Chief Learning Officer
Why Learning Theory
Won’t Drive Change?April 10th 2014
Brian S. McGowan, PhDCo-Founder &
Chief Learning Officer
Have you under-designed
your learning experiences?April 10th 2014
If everyone knows that walking a few flights of stairs a day is better for your health, why do so few people use them?
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Under-designed
exercise
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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’
What if instead of telling us how to behave they would ‘show’ us how to do so?
Under-desig
ned
Conservation
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Or better yet, what if it were
more fun to invest our attention wisely?
Under-designed
Cleanliness
How would you design things if you accepted the role of
Architect of the big picture?
Under-designed
Discipline
The underappreciated science oflearner-centric
design!
Unconscious Nudges: Priming
Disfluency
Which of the wordswords on this slide do you think learnerslearners will remember the most?
Symbols
Nudges and Memory
40.5 38.131.8
0
10
20
30
40
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Smashed Bumped Contacted
Estimated Speed (MPH)
“How fast were the cars going when they “____”?”
So what are the actions we need to design
for in EdTech?
#1 Note Taking
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#2 Reminders
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#3 Questions
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#4 Collaboration
Learning Actions Nudges:Note-Taking and Reminders
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Learning Actions Nudges:Social Triggering
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…
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Brian S. McGowan, PhDCo-Founder &
Chief Learning Officer
Why Learning Theory
Won’t Drive Learning?April 10th 2014
