Neuroscience + Learning Psychology + Education Technology =
EDUCATION 3.0
Pick a number…
Between 01 & 10
Multiply by 9
Add 2 digits of new number together
Subtract 5
Assign the corresponding letter to the number (1=A,
2=B, etc)
• Pick a country that begins with that letter
(A=Argentina, etc)
• Think of an animal that begins with the 2nd letter of
the country
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The Problem…
There are no elephants in Denmark!
Online Gym Class
Motivation
Teaching Perspective
Dr. Jeff D Borden
Dr. Jeff D Borden
Learning Today
Education 3.0 Agenda
• Reform
• Education Psychology
– Harvard
• Neuroscience
– Lecture
– Skeuomorphs
• Education Technology
– Narrative
– Games
– Create – Consume – Remix
- Share
Reform
We Know Reform…
We Know Reform…
• Tyson says its Krisp N’
Krunchy patties,
• “…yield up to 7,200 EXTRA
servings per diverted truck of
chicken compared to similar
chicken patties from other
manufacturers.”
•
Tyson Website – “Tools for Chicken
Reprocessing”
We Know Research…
We Know Research…
Ready, Willing, and Unable (to serve)
Are Students Life-Ready?
• 2008 Oxford
Survey of “Most
Important
Employee
Skills”
• Employers said
employees
achieved 15%
of these
regularly
We Know The Problems…
What’s Wrong With Education?
FOR EVERY 100 9TH GRADERS
68 GRADUATE ON TIME
OF THOSE, 40 ENROLL DIRECTLY IN COLLEGE
OF THOSE, 27 ARE STILL
ENROLLED THE FOLLOWING
YEAR
OF THOSE, 18 EARN AN
ASSOCIATES DEGREE WITHIN 3
YEARS OR A B.A. WITHIN 6 YEARS.
-- National center on education and the economy ncee.org
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DON’T
MAKE IT!
But Students Still Demand Technology…
•The average American student’s
College / University is ____ miles from
where the student lives:
•1980: 5m
•2006: 50m
•2009: 78m
•Eduventures, 2009
Technology Demands Purpose
•“Students know when
technology without purpose
is being imposed on them.”
Allan Heap, Center for
Internet Technology
Welding, Telescopes,
Automotive,
Microscopes, Cadavers,
Architecture Software,
Bridge Construction
Tools, Etc
The Psychology of Learning
That’s SO 1992…
• What’s the best way to lecture & assess my
(9, 90, 900) students in class?
– Sincerely, 1992
Harvard Assessment Seminars
Making the Most of College: Students
Speak Their Minds
• 1600 Interviews
– 1:1; Undergrads; 24 pgs; 2-3 hours per
• 10 Year, Qualitative Analysis
– 10+ faculty interviewers; 30+ student interviewers
• Some Participating
Colleges:
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1. Boston College
2. Boston University
3. Brandeis University
4. Bristol Community College
5. Bunker Hill Community
College
– 6. Harvard University
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7. M. I. T.
8. Princeton University
9. UMass - Amherst
10. UMass - Boston
11. Wellesley College
12. Yale University
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/light/index.html
Honor Student Desires & Challenge
Immediately
• Rate your academic experience: 1-10
• How did you first pick your classes?
I got my pre-req’s out of the way…
I took a few classes that interested me…
Social Learning Matters
• 1990: 55% of science majors stayed majors
• 2000: 63% of science majors stayed majors
Tension Leads To Better Learning
• What was your favorite course?
Diversity Leads To Better Learning
• Do you want professors and peers to be like
you? (Race, background, socio-economic, etc)
Cognitive Science
That’s SO 2002…
• What’s the best way to lecture & assess my
(9, 90, 900) students in class?
– Sincerely, 1992
• What’s the best way to do what I normally do
in the classroom online?
– Sincerely, 2002
Online Education: At Best
Online Education: At Worst
Connecting To Perception
•Internal Perception
What you believe to be true.
I’m Funny
•External Perception
What others believe to be true about
you.
What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
He Thinks He’s Funny
e-vangelists vs C.A.V.E. People
Mark Edmundson
Lecturing
National Survey of Student Engagement, USA 2006
Eliminating Diversity
Dr. Eric Mazur
Brain Activity: Eric Mazur
We Know (more) About the Brain…
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition
Hidden Patterns
Hidden Patterns
Dr John Medina
• “As I was writing Brain Rules, it hit me [that]
if you wanted to design a learning
environment that was directly opposed to
what the brain is naturally good at doing, you
would design something like a classroom.”
RED
BLUE
GREEN
YELLOW
BLUE
RED
YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE
GREEN
RED
YELLOW
Orthographic Lexicon
Retention Aids Based On Brain Research
Neural Coupling
Narrative’s Pathos
Education Technology
That’s SO 2012…
• What’s the best way to lecture & assess my
(9, 90, 900) students in class?
– Sincerely, 1992
• What’s the best way to do what I normally do
in the classroom online?
– Sincerely, 2002
• What’s the best way to learn?
– Sincerely, 2012
Common College Outcome
• Communication:
– Nonverbal
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Haptics
Objectics
Proxemics
Chronemics
Optics
Vocalics
Kinesics
– Mirroring
Kinesic Mirroring: Modern Communication
2007 NYTimes
“The majority of
communication in
the workplace
occurs over email
and chat today.”
2009 WSJ:
“…leading more
and more Fortune
500 companies to
ask if future
employees have
taken an online
class.”
The Mixxer
There’s An App For That…
Persuasion Profiling: Assimilation
• Roger Ebert: Too many sub-plots and not
enough continuity make me give this a thumbs
down!
• Average Entertainment Grade from 15 critics: B+
• Yelp Score: 3.2/5 Stars
• Your Mom: I was moved to tears and I want to
share this movie with you. Trust me, you’ll love
it.
• (Text # to 22333)
Wolfram Alpha
History Pin
Zite
Pocket
Team Viewer
Problem Based Learning
(AKA Flipped Classrooms)
Game Based Learning
Life Raft Dilemma
JSB: WOW L-70
Insert game slide
Dan Meyer & Angry Birds
Edu-Blogger:
• YouTube Video: Have You Been Paying Attention?
• “…Has anyone seen this garbage? Students don’t need
to remix anything! Educators must teach them to be
original, have original thought, and do original work!
Imagine if society worked this way.
• We’d still be hoping someone would invent the rolling
stone so as to create a wheel. Imagine a world where
using other people’s work to create your own was ok.
• We’d never have gotten past the toaster to see the
benefits of the microwave. We’d never have gotten
past swing music to experience amazing original works
like Elton John’s “The Lion King” or other seminal
works…”
Remix, Sample or Steal?
• 1996 - Can You Feel The love Tonight?
• Save tonight, fight the break of dawn, come
tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll be gone…
• You’re beautiful! You’re beautiful!
• If I could, then I would, I’ll go wherever you
will go, way up high, or down low, I’ll go
wherever you will go…
• Never mind, I’ll find someone like you – I wish
nothing but the best for you too…
Remix, Sample or Steal?
1989 - Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray,
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe
McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North
Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe…
1989 - Wherever you go – whatever you do, I will be right
here waiting for you…
1987 - I think we’re alone now, there doesn’t seem to be
anyone around…
1984 - We’re not gonna take it, no we ain’t gonna take it –
we’re not gonna take it anymore…
Remix, Sample or Steal?
See the stone set in her eyes, see the thorn twist in
her side, and I’m waiting for you, with or without
you
Remix, Sample or Steal?
1984 - Take on me, Take me up, I’ll be gone
?????
1981 - Just a small town girl – living in a lonely world
– she took the midnight train going anywhere
1980 - I come from a land down under, where women
roll and men thunder…
Remix, Sample or Steal?
1976 - On your mark, get set, and go now – gotta
dream and we just know now
1970 - When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother
Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let
it be
1961 - When the night has come, and the land is
dark, and the moon is the only light we’ll see
1790?!?!?!
Confluence
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Thank You
Dr. Jeff D Borden
Jeff.Borden@Pearson.com