Education 3.0

Dr. Jeff Borden
Bethany Center
October 10, 2016
Training within the Diocese of St. Petersburg

Forgetting Curve
-how many times does it take for something to get entrenched in memory?
-the more we are reminded of things, the longer we can remember it
-however, everyone has a different "forgetting curve" - how long they can not be reminded of something and not forget it
-Head Magnet: https://headmagnet.com

Learning: to acquire knowledge of or a skill in something by study, experience, or being taught

What if we learn something wrong?

Learning isn't just taking in something new, it is consciously allowing something new to take over something that we've learned before

Learning 3.0
-Neuroscience, education technology, education psychology = connected neuro-learning

Rigor
-demanding, difficult, extremely thorough, exhaustive, while accurate

How do you measure rigor?
*Typically, this is what education does to enhance rigor:
-testing, speeding up instructional objectives
-less time, younger, less mature, quantity

Rigor is not more, earlier

Rigor at Scale
-Challenge, Satisfaction, Skill, Focus, Anticipation
-requires technology

SAMR (Puentdura - 2002)
*need to move up from substitution to redefinition RE: using technology
-Redefinition
-Modification
-Augmentation
-Substitution

Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - 2000)
-Gaming culture
-Challenge vs. Abilities

Social-Emotional Learning
-We can't learn if we are anxious
-Must consider this RE: enhancing rigor
-Matthew Lieberman: http://www.scn.ucla.edu
-our brains wake up desiring connection - it stays activated until we encounter a task
-our brains desire to work with someone on a task

Boredom releases cortisol - causes heart problems, depression, overeating - bad things!
-"If someone is bored for more than 7 minutes, you're killing them!" (Dr. Jeff Borden)

Mark Edmundson
-students go to college for the "Great Lecturer"
-however, research shows that we learn less through lectures
-brain activity is extremely low during lectures - similar to watching TV (there is more brain activity in sleep)

Redefinition: http://www.historypin.org/en/

Focus - norepinephrine
-just enough conflict to stay engaged - too much is overwhelming, too little is boring
-as teachers, how can we create just the right amount of conflict to spur motivation?

Dopamine
-released when we believe we can attain something
-this belief can allow for us to accomplish something

Tell, show, do, review, ask
-Rewire this - Do, Show, Tell, Review, Ask - we need to allow students to do more

Endorphines and Dopamine
-recognizing patterns releases these two

Chords from "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
-date all the way back to 1690
-artists have used these 9 chords countless times
-Create, consume, remix and share

John Medina - Brain Rules
-http://innovation.saintleo.edu
-http://incarnationcsca.blogspot.com/2015/02/brain-based-learning-and-stem.html