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Neuroscience + Learning Psychology + Education Technology = Education 3.0 Slide 2 Best Success Indicator? Slide 3 Grit Score Slide 4 *I rarely plan ahead. Im a spur-of-the-moment kind of person. *Id be good in a dangerous job because I can make my mind up quickly. *If something better comes along its OK to cancel a longstanding appointment. *Seeing an animal injured or in pain doesnt bother me in the slightest. *Driving fast, riding rollercoasters, and skydiving, appeal to me. *It doesnt matter to me if I have to step on other people to get what I want. *Im very persuasive. I have a talent for getting other people to do what I want. *Cheating on your partner is OK so long as you dont get caught. *I find it easy to keep myself together in situations when others are cracking under pressure. *If I am able to con someone, thats their problem. They deserve it. Score each: 0, 1, 2, 3 Slide 5 Are You A Psychopath? 0-10: Low 11-15: Below average 16-20: Average 21-25: High 26-30: Very high Slide 6 James Fallon Slide 7 The Best Surgeons? CEOs? Slide 8 Dr. Jeff D Borden Slide 9 Slide 10 Learning Today Slide 11 Slide 12 Are Students Life-Ready? 2008 Oxford Survey of Most Important Employee Skills Employers said employees achieved 15% of these regularly Slide 13 We Know The Problems Slide 14 Whats 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 A DEGREE WITHIN 3 or 6 YEARS (A.A., B.A., etc) 82 DONT MAKE IT! -- National center on education and the economy ncee.org Slide 15 Sir Ken Robinson: RSA Animate Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Cont. Slide 19 Slide 20 Syllabi Rules (Todays Agenda) 1.Turn off all electronic devices. (Penn State) 2.Do not speak unless given the floor by the instructor. (U Mass) 3.Sit in an appropriate desk or chair do not sit on a table, do not stand, do not move around when others are speaking. (UCLA) 4.Read all appropriate materials prior to class. Students who have not read the materials will not be allowed to enter into class discussions. (Texas A&M) 5.Students will memorize all postulates and theorums. Cheat sheets and calculators with text will not be tolerated. (Brown University) 6.Do your own, original work at all times and for every test and assignment. (U of Montana @ Billings) Slide 21 Turn off all electronic devices. (Penn State) Slide 22 Slide 23 Online Gym Class Slide 24 Motivation Slide 25 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 Slide 26 But students still demand it The average American students College / University is ____ miles from where the student lives: 1980: 5m 2006: 50m 2009: 78m Eduventures, 2009 Slide 27 Common College Outcome Communication: Nonverbal Haptics Objectics Proxemics Chronemics Optics Vocalics Kinesics Mirroring Slide 28 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. Slide 29 History Pin Slide 30 Teaching Perspective Slide 31 http://researchnetwork.pearson.com/sot Slide 32 Read all appropriate materials prior to class. Students who have not read the materials will not be allowed to enter into class discussions. (Texas A&M) Slide 33 Colors & Patterns Slide 34 Pattern Recognition Slide 35 Slide 36 Hidden Patterns Slide 37 Slide 38 Oral Information - Memory Slide 39 Slide 40 Slide 41 Visual Cortex - Memory Slide 42 Slide 43 Slide 44 Students will memorize all postulates and theorums. Cheat sheets and calculators with text will not be tolerated. (Brown University) Slide 45 Memory Test Candy Sour Sugar Bitter Good Tooth Taste Nice Honey Chocolate Soda Heart Cake Pie Eat Slide 46 Memory Slide 47 RED BLUE GREEN YELLOW BLUE RED YELLOW GREEN BLUE GREEN RED YELLOW Slide 48 Training Neurons Slide 49 Memory Slide 50 Was the word Candy in the list? Was the word Car in the list? Was the word Sweet in the list? YES NO Slide 51 Neural Coupling Slide 52 Narratives Pathos Slide 53 Do not speak unless given the floor by the instructor. (U Mass) Slide 54 Study Sounds Slide 55 Abstract Cognition a moderate rather than low level of ambient noise induces processing disfluency, which leads to abstract cognition and consequently enhances creativity". Slide 56 The Best Classrooms Slide 57 Harvard Assessment Seminars Slide 58 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: 1. Boston College 2. Boston University 3. Brandeis University 4. Bristol Community College 5. Bunker Hill Community College 6. Harvard University 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 Slide 59 Social Learning Matters 1990: 55% of science majors stayed majors 2000: 63% of science majors stayed majors Slide 60 The Mixxer Slide 61 Repeat after me Do Tell Show Review Ask Slide 62 Sit in an appropriate desk or chair do not sit on a table, do not stand, do not move around when others are speaking. (UCLA) Slide 63 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. Slide 64 Tension Leads To Better Learning What was your favorite course? Slide 65 Local CI-ARG Coroner: Dr. Slain was struck in the right Sphenoid area (temple) of his head causing an immediate internal hemorrhage resulting in death. Slide 66 Slide 67 (Mock) Trial of the Century Slide 68 Actors Slide 69 96 Hours Ago Slide 70 Contagion Slide 71 Content Ideas: Contagion Slide 72 Majors / Emphasis Areas: Contagion Science Political Science Business Communication Medicine / Health Slide 73 Outcomes Global Goals Cultural Sensitivity Persuasion Communication Basic Health Tenets Etc Local Outcomes ??? Slide 74 Want To Play? Jeff.Borden@Pearson.com Slide 75 Do your own, original work at all times and for every test and assignment. (U of Montana @ Billings) Slide 76 YouTube Video: Have You Been Paying Attention?Have You Been Paying Attention? Slide 77 Edu-Blogger: Has anyone seen this garbage? Students dont need to remix anything! Educators must teach them to be original, have original thought, and do original work! Imagine if society worked this way. Wed still be hoping someone would invent the rolling stone so as to create a wheel. Imagine a world where using other peoples work to create your own was ok. Wed never have gotten past the toaster to see the benefits of the microwave. Wed never have gotten past swing music to experience amazing original works like Elton Johns The Lion King or other seminal works Slide 78 Remix, Sample or Steal? 1996 - Can You Feel The love Tonight? Save tonight, fight the break of dawn, come tomorrow, tomorrow Ill be gone Youre beautiful! If I could, then I would, Ill go wherever you will go, way up high, or down low, Ill go wherever you will go Never mind, Ill find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you too Slide 79 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 were alone now, there doesnt seem to be anyone around 1984 - Were not gonna take it, no we aint gonna take it were not gonna take it anymore Slide 80 Remix, Sample or Steal? See the stone set in her eyes, see the thorn twist in her side, and Im waiting for you, with or without you Slide 81 Remix, Sample or Steal? 1984 - Take on me (YOU: take on me!), Take me up (YOU: take on me!), Ill be gone ????? 1981 - Just a small town girl living in a lonely world she took the midnight train going anywhere Slide 82 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 well see 1790?!?!?! Slide 83 Syllabi Rules (Todays Agenda) 1.Do not speak unless given the floor by the instructor. (U Mass) 2.Sit in an appropriate desk or chair do not sit on a table, do not stand, do not move around when others are speaking. (UCLA) 3.Read all appropriate materials prior to class. Students who have not read the materials will not be allowed to enter into class discussions. (Texas A&M) 4.Class will consist of lectures, discussions, quizzes, 3 papers, and 1 Final Exam. (Stanford) 5.Students will memorize all postulates and theorums. Cheat sheets and calculators with text will not be tolerated. (Brown University) 6.All conversations pertaining to imprudent or otherwise meaningless frivolities (e.g. dating, games, media, etc.) should not be included during class time. (Yale) 7.Do your own, original work at all times and for every test and assignment. (U of Montana @ Billings) 8.The classroom door will shut and lock at precisely 8am. (Princeton) Slide 84 Confluence Slide 85 Thank You Dr. Jeff D Borden jborden@jeffpresents.com Slide 86 Retention Aids Based On Brain Research Slide 87 Head Magnet