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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.
http://tinyurl.com/ng6gzuh
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
@kristenmaeve
image credits: seanheritage.com and portland sun times