The VisualCaptilalist post How Do People Spend Their Time where I got this infographic does a wonderful job differentiating how and where people across the world spend their time. We all get 24 hours a day so it is interesting to see how people from different parts of the world use this time.
Category: Learning
Want To Change the World – Tell a Good Story
The following are the links to articles, blog posts, YouTube videos, TED Talks, books, and other resources that I have explored in my pursuit of improving my ability to tell a good story and hopefully change the world.
Why Learning Environments Need to Change
Why do so many prefer passive learning?
Why You Need to Rethink Your Role as an Educator
Why AI Should Scare Some Educators and Not Others
My Why & How I Got to Now
Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audience
Nancy Duarte’s Guide to Persuasive Presentations – https://www.duarte.com/resonate-book/
This is the link to the free online version of the book that will require you to provide your name and email address to gain access to the book. I have a copy of this book on my bookshelf and on Kindle. If you were to have only one book on presentations this would be it.
Nancy Duarte uncovers the common structure of greatest communicators
If you don’t have time to read the book Resonate – Duarte’s TED talk will provide a great summary of the key elements of the book.
The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander
One of the amazing presentations highlighted in Resonate
Digital Storytelling Cookbook
This is an older, but still relevant, abridged version of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook. A most recent full version can be purchased from the Story Center at https://www.storycenter.org/inventory/digital-storytelling-cookbook
My first Digital Storytelling result:
Not Suited for School But Suited for Learning
Presentation Considerations:
How to avoid Death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon
Nancy Duarte: How to Create Better Visual Presentations
Five Simple Rules for Creating World-Changing Presentations
Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL
The magical science of storytelling | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholm
REMEMBER – Change Takes Time & Multiple Sources of Influence
Why TED Talks don’t change people’s behaviors: Tom Asacker at TEDxCambridge
If you are going to create a slide presentation or video for your digital story then consider the following resources and tools:
Dwayne’s DIY Video Setup – Part 6: To Script or Not To Script…
Dwayne’s DIY Video Setup – Part 5 Audio & Lighting Update
Words Per Minutes Guidelines
http://www.speechinminutes.com/
Best Video Editing Software for Mac – 2021 Review!
Best Video Editing Software for Windows PC – 2021 Review!
Free Music Archivehttps://freemusicarchive.org/
Reflection on the Importance of Learning
The revolution of self-directed learning | Sean Bengry
Josh Kaufman | 20 Hours to Learn Anything
Why Constant Learners All Embrace the 5 Hour Rule
Our work doesn’t have to be obtuse to be important
Experts connect dots not just collect dots
Revised August 2021
We Need More Autodidacts
One more article pointing to one more book explaining that technology alone has not and will not transform education. In this Learner’s Mindset Discussion we look at this latest warning article from Justin Reich Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education (create a free account to view the full article) and offer some suggestions on how we can use the Learner’s Mindset to help develop more self-directed learners or autodidact.
Reich’s book with the same title Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education is a much more detailed handing of this issue. Larry Cuban has been exploring or exposing the myth that educational technology can transform the education system for decades so it is assuring to note the ideas we explored in our Learner’s Mindset Discussion are confirmed by the likes of this educational historian in his review of Riech’s argument. Cuban’s book Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom offers an earlier version of the same argument and some of Cuban’s warnings on the empty promises of technology go back to the 70’s and 80’s so this is not a new idea.
How to Develop More Autodidacts
Throughout the discussion, my colleague and I talked about some of the things we need to do to help learners become self-directed and independent learners or autodidacts. I have spent the last three decades exploring and researching this question so you will find that my site is filled with posts on learning how to learn. To save you some time on searching my site consider the following posts as a starting point:
Change in Focus
Connecting dots vs collecting dots
CSLE+COVA
In pursuit of the better way – the learners mindset
DIY Mindset Requires a Learner’s Mindset
How to Grow a Growth Mindset