Six qualities for success in learning

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Six qualities for success in learning

• Kris Baldwin, Education Technology Specialist

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What is stickiness?

• Mental duct tapelike mental velcro but stronger!
• The Kidney Heist and other urban legends
• Halloween Candyfrom 1958 to 1985, there were no
  candy from strangers related deaths
• Successful is predictable.

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You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.
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The Curse of Knowledge

• Partner up
• Tappersyou will tap out a song
• Listenersyou will try to guess the song

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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 Principle

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Clarifying Content Priorities
Online Resource www.bigideas.org
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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.
  Its forgetfulness. We forget to be concrete and
  tend to slip back into abstract-speak.

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Unexpected

• Surprisegets attention
• Interestkeeps 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.

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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.
• Authors Note If the phrase Hey Jude drew a
  blank, please exchange this book for a Beatles
  album. Youll be happier.

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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
• Wheres the beef?

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Beyond War

• How to convince people that the nuclear weapons
  race was out of control?
• Hiroshima1 bomb
• US nuclear sub10 bombs
• Worldwide in 19855,000 bombs

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Emotional

• The most basic way to make people care is to form
  an association between something they dont yet
  care about and something they do care about.

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WIFFY

• Whats 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
• Think of what the 1000 meansdown payment on a
  new car, or home improvement youve been wanting.
• Think of the increased security of having that
  1000 in the bank for a rainy day.
• Think of what the 1000 meansthe company
  recognizes how important you are to its overall
  performance. It doesnt spend money for nothing.

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Maslow understood sticky.
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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 outcome.

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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

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

• Make the audience

• SUCCESs Checklist

• Pay attention.
• Understand and remember it.
• Agree or Believe
• Care
• Be able to act on it.

• Unexpected
• Concrete
• Credible
• Emotional
• Story

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