Making Learning Stick

To know something, you must...

1. Learn it 2. Remember it

Making Learning Stick

Pull Mnemonics

Schooling
The forgetting curve Rule of threes Memory champions

Outboard brain
Peers Tips & tricks Learning environment

PULL
I love to learn but I hate to be taught. Winston Churchill

Driven by need Immediate reinforcement Incremental Just enough Experiential Social

702010

PUSH

School
Our shared experience Protected from reality
Fragmented & theoretical Exams Graduate

School
Trigonometry Latin Chemistry Calculus etc.

WIIFM?

Memory decays exponentially

Hermann Ebbinghaus

after one hour, half gone after one day, another 10% after one month, another 14%
unless reinforced

There are always three things.

Rule of threes: Timing

Beginning

Middle

Next

Rule of threes: Training

Beginning

Middle

Next

Focus of most schooling & training

Learning as process
Beginning Middle End

Alumni = support network

Team meets in advance, get to know one another, and discuss their goals for the workshop Brief recall session Wiki Q&A Updates

Rule of threes: Timing

Beginning

Middle

Next Next

Outboard brain
Knowledge to work stored in workers head

1986 = 75% 1997 = 15% - 20% 2006 = 8% - 10 %

Robert Kelley, CMU


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Stuff that works Mnemonics

"Now I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics"

Roy G. Biv (red, orange, yellow, green...)

HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)

More
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) Dirty, Kinky, People, Can, Often, Find, Great, Sex. (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species) MRS GREN: Movement; Respiration; Sensation; Growth; Reproduction; Excretion; Nutrition

Bloom's Taxonomy: Keep calm at all sporting events: (Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation)
Pregnant Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak. (Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous) Common Law Felonies: Mrs. Baker: Murder, Rape, Sodomy, Burglary, Arson, Kidnapping, Escape, Robbery PALE GAS may be used to remember the seven deadly sins:[20] Pride, Avarice (greed), Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Anger (wrath), Sloth

Three tiny habits

You can easily begin making your own memory pala

The Magic Number 7 of George Miller

7x7x7x7x7

Stuff that works

Highlight

Journal

Doodle

Stuff that works

Actions are more memorable than names.

baker Baker

Stuff that works Spaced repetition Dramatic stories Write it in green

Stuff that works

Drawing mind maps makes connections visible.

Stuff that works

To master a subject, curate information about it. Point to good stuff, share your opinion, take comments, and keep the conversation going. The teacher always learns (and remembers) more than the pupil.

Stuff that works

Blog. Just do it.

Collaboration is why we are here.

Workscape = learning environment

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People come up with twice as many innovative uses for a paperclip after a picture of a lightbulb is shown to them, even thought it flashes by too quickly for them to recognize it. People contribute more to victims of a hurricane if their name starts with the same letter as the name of the storm. Given a choice, right-handed people prefer words made of letters from the righthand size of the keyboard. Tell teachers certain students are academic bloomers, and those students IQs rise 10-15 points over the course of a year. Show an Apple logo to people subliminally and they think more creatively than people who are shown an IBM logo. Mount a photograph of peering eyes in the coffee room, and fewer people cheat the honesty box. When Japanese mounted blue lights in train stations, crime rates dropped and suicides ceased. Olympic wrestlers are more likely to win a medal if they are wearing red. People think its easier to drive south because its down, not up, on the map. People reflect more intently on messages in difficult-to-read fonts. People are more aggressive in hot weather and amorous in cold.

JAY CROSS
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Key Takeaways
1. Repetition and Reinforcement
If we dont use it, we loose it

2. Experiential/Learning by Doing
Relevance by application

3. Visual Stimulation
Remember we learn through visuals, not just written or spoken words

4. Attention
Anti-boring, involve the learner

5. Exploration
We are natural explorers

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Repetition and Reinforcement

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Experiential/Learning by Doing

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Visual Stimulation

Map with Images

Attention

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Exploration - Sample

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