Education, Fallacies, and Skeuomorphs: Why Make Learning Harder?
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!
Teaching Perspective
Dr. Jeff D Borden
Dr. Jeff D Borden
Learning Today
Agenda
• Education 3.0
– Education Psychology
• Harvard
– Neuroscience
• Lecture
• Skeuomorphs
– Education Technology
• Narrative
• Games
• Create – Consume – Remix Share
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)
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
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.”
e-vangelists vs C.A.V.E. People
Mark Edmundson
Eliminating Diversity
Dr. Eric Mazur
Lecture vs Sleep: Eric Mazur
Lecturing
National Survey of Student Engagement, USA 2006
Skeuomorph
Skeuomorphs
Skeuomorph
Better Ways
Why Do We…
The Mixxer
We Know Research…
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
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RED
YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE
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RED
YELLOW
Retention Aids Based On Brain Research
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
Earthquake Reporting
First Hour of Earthquake
Earthquake Photos
Buy It Now…
Medicine / WebMD
Dating / eHarmony – 20%
Banking / eBanking
Friendships
Credibility
@bordenj
Secrets
www.postsecret.com
Education
Schools: Anti-Connected?
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Cell Phones
Laptops
Collaboration
Wolfram Alpha
Wikipedia
– Cliff Notes
Education…Connected?
Problem Based Learning
(AKA Flipped Classrooms)
Game Based Learning
Life Raft Dilemma
Insert game slide
JSB: WOW L-70
Guild Master
• WoW Guild Master = total-immersion course in
leadership
Guild Master: Real World Skills
• Attracting
• Evaluating
• Recruiting new
members
• Creating apprenticeship
programs
• Orchestrating group
strategy
• Adjudicating disputes
Groups & Games…
• You Try
• 60 M in an H = 60 Minutes in an Hour
60 M in an H
13 S on the A F
24 H in a D
36 I in a Y
18 H on a G C
1 W on a U
26 L of the A
32 D F at which W F 5 D in a Z C
7 W of the W
8 S on a S S
57 H V
1001 A N
200 D for P G in M
11 P on a F T
12 S of the Z
3 B M (S H T R)
1000 W that a P is W
54 C in a D with the
J
90 D in a R A
29 D in F in a L Y
10 Y in a D
64 S on a C
8 P in the S S + P
4 Q in a G
40 D and N of the G F
36000 M C W
20 N in a D
66 B in the B
88 P K
2 is the N it T to T
15 B on a P T
80 D to G A the W
108 (D)S on a Bb
56 KbPS
Confluence
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BUS
CIS
ECO
FIN
HUM
LEG
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MKT
POL
PSY
SOC
YouTube Video: Have You Been Paying
Attention?
Edu-Blogger:
• “…Has anyone seen this garbage? Technology simply
promotes copy & paste! 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?
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…
And she will be loved – and she will be loved…
Remix, Sample, or Steal?
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
Wherever you go – whatever you do, I will be
right here waiting for you
We’re not gonna take it, no we ain’t gonna take
it – we’re not gonna take it anymore
I think we’re alone now, there doesn’t seem to
be anyone around
Remix, Sample, or Steal?
There was a time when I was so broken
hearted
Just a small town girl – living in a lonely
world – she took the midnight train going
anywhere
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?
Take on me (Take on me!)
Take me up (Take on me!)
I’ll be gone
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Remix, Sample, or Steal?
On your mark, get set, and go now –
gotta dream and we just know now
I come from a land down under, where
women roll and men thunder…
When I find myself in times of trouble,
Mother Mary comes to me, speaking
words of wisdom, let it be
1790?!?!?!
Remember…
Thank You
Dr. Jeff D Borden
jeffb@ecollege.com