NeuroEducation in ActionApplying Insights that Impact Learning

Tracy King, MA, CFD, CAE

Magic Wand Wishes …2

Attend

Associate

Act

Analyze

“AAAA”

Attend: How can I grab

attention and maintain focus?

Associate: How can I

create space for reflection?

Act: What exercises or tools

will I offer for practice?

Analyze: How do I structure

content to connect with the

learner?

“AAAA”

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Attend Engagement Visuals Environment

Apply Assess Practice Refine

Associate Elaborate Rehearse Reflect

Analyze Scaffolding Chunking Connecting

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Attend Engagement Visuals Environment

Apply Assess Practice Refine

Associate Elaborate Rehearse Reflect

Analyze Scaffolding Chunking Connecting

AttendEngaging the learning brain

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● “We don’t pay attention to boring things.”

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~Brain Rules, John Medina

Engagement10

Engagement

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● Strategies: ● Story ● Visuals ● Self-Expression

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Key: Engagement is activating the neurobiological function of attention, focusing the learner’s working memory resources.

AnalyzeScaffolding & the power of prior knowledge

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● “The single most important factor in learning is the existing network of neurons in the learner’s brain. Ascertain what they are and teach accordingly.”

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~ David Ausubel

Scaffolding

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● Strategies: ● Relationships ● Metaphor ● Formative Feedback

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Key: Learning is a constructivist process –we scaffold new concepts onto existing models.

AssociateElaboration & elaborative rehearsal

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● “We have superior memory for anything that is processed at the level of meaning.”

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~Visual Language, Connie Malamed

Elaboration

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● Strategies: ● Case Studies ● Elaborative Rehearsal

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Key: New learning is “sticky” if it’s elaborate, meaningful, and contextual

ApplyInsights on assessment

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● “We are often poor judges of when we are learning and when we are not.”

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~Make it Stick, Peter Brown

Assess

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● Strategies: ● Assessment Design ● Interval Practice

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Key: Assessment is both a measure and an opportunity for feedback that directs learners to manage weaknesses.

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Attend Engagement Visuals Environment

Apply Assess Practice Refine

Associate Elaborate Rehearse Reflect

Analyze Scaffolding Chunking Connecting

5 E’sLearning Design Model

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Designing a Learning Experience23

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation

Designing a Learning Experience24

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation

Focus attention

1.

Designing a Learning Experience25

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation

2.

Structure & connect

Designing a Learning Experience26

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation

3.

Flesh out model

Designing a Learning Experience27

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation

4.

Extend complexity; reflection

Designing a Learning Experience28

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation5.

Assess objectives were met

Designing a Learning Experience29

Engagement

Exploration

ExplanationElaboration

Evaluation

Your Turn

● Reflection: Session Debrief ● Key topics: ◦ What design choices did I make to incorporate the learning cycle and NeuroEd principles we’ve discussed? !◦ Questions about my choices?

● 15 minutes

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