AmA - On Teaching and Learning

As an expert you will be asked to facilitate the learning of others, not to mention your personal eternal learning in your field. Join a session about how our brains accept new knowledge and store it for later use. Your take-away will be three-fold; how to chunk information you give to others, how to improve your own learning AND something to entertain with at dull parties.

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1. Anden information
   On Teaching and Learning
   Aino Vonge Corry, PhD
   Putting speakers on stage
   Helping developers talk with each other
   Messing with the heads of students
   

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2. Anden information
   Why should you listen?
   1) Becoming an expert
   2) Improve your own learning
   3) An anecdote to entertain a dinner party with!
   

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3. Anden information
   Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
   Novice
   Context-free rules
   Beginner
   Applies guidelines
   Competent
   Responds to the unexpected
   Proficient
   Unconsciously combines
   processes and responds
   to nuances of situations
   Expert
   Has intuitive
   grasp of
   whole
   situation
   Discussing
   experiences
   Applying it
   Watching
   presentations
   Applying it
   again and
   again, and
   again
   Teaching
   

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   Who performs best?
   The expert is better than the novice
   They perform equally well
   The novice is better than the expert
   A mid-play chess board
   

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   Master
   Novice
   A mid-play chess board
   

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   Who performs best?
   The expert is better than the novice
   They perform equally well
   The novice is better than the expert
   A random chess board
   

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   Master
   Novice
   A random chess board
   

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   Novice and Expert in Chess
   Expert
   Knows 100.000s of board
   configurations and their associated
   moves
   Novice
   Knows few (if any) board
   configurations and their associated
   moves
   

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   Reading
   et a lg nimo cs ire pa psw e ngni nr ome ht
   

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    Reading
    et a lg nimo cs ire pa psw e ngni nr ome ht
    the morning newspaper is coming late
    

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    How to learn
    ▪ Chunks of information
    ▪ Patterns and automata
    ▪ Learning preferences
    ▪ Constructivism
    

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    You get a new apprentice
    And you want to turn the apprentice into an expert
    in the system that you work on
    

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    Start teaching the apprentice
    Talk all day and use numerous examples…..
    Why does it not work?
    

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    The brain - memory
    Working memory
    Long-term memory
    Nose ☺
    

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    Working memory in action
    

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    Decoding patterns in
    working memory
    

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    Chunking - processing
    

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    Encoding patterns in
    Long-term Memory
    

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    References to patterns
    

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    Design Patterns - learning
    

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    Design Patterns - applying
    W
    hat are
    the
    patterns
    in
    your w
    orkplace?
    

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    If the apprentice does not get it?
    - even with the use of patterns
    ?
    

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23. Anden information
    Teaching Anecdote From the
    Beginning of the Century….
    

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24. Anden information
    My intro to OO
    

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    And how to get to code – easy!
    

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26. Anden information
    The assignment for the attendees
    

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    What I had in mind
    

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    What they came up with…
    

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    Procedural Brain
    

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    My OO Brain
    

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    That you, when you want to succeed in bringing a
    person to a certain place, must start by finding
    out, where he is, from the start and begin there
    At man, når det i sandhed skal lykkes en at føre et
    menneske hen til et bestemt sted, først og
    fremmest må passe på at finde ham der, hvor
    han er, og begynde der.
    

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    If the apprentice still does not get it?
    - even when you find out where to start
    ?
    

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    Learning Preferences
    – the Felder-Silverman model
    ▪ Global vs. Sequential learners
    

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    Learning Preferences
    – the Felder-Silverman model
    Global learners
    Sequential learners
    

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    Learning Preferences
    – the Felder-Silverman model
    Active learners
    Reflective learners
    

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    If the apprentice still does not get it?
    - even if you cater for learning preference
    ?
    

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    A brain with content
    

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    Events are processed
    

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    Encoding starts
    

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    Encoding fails
    

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    Encoding works by construction
    

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    But knowing the content is
    not enough…
    If the apprentice does not want to listen to you….
    

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    LOGOS
    PATHOS
    ETHOS
    

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    Logos – what you are saying
    Pathos – how excited you are
    Ethos – who (they think) you are
    

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45. Anden information
    Logos – what you are saying
    Pathos– how excited you are
    Ethos – who (they think) you are
    

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46. Anden information
    Logos – what you are saying
    Pathos– how excited you are
    Ethos – who (they think) you are
    

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    What did you listen to?
    1) Becoming an expert
    2) Improve your own learning
    3) An anecdote to entertain a dinner party with!
    

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