A History of Teaching in 10 Lectures Pecha Kucha

A History of Teaching in 10 Lectures Pecha Kucha

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  A History ofTeaching in 10 Lectures @ fredgarnett Coventry University 19 September 2018 Pecha Kucha
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  1. "That's whatyou are paid to do!!" • After many years of teaching in the USA and the U.K. I got really good at teaching. I designed my courses, having got approval for the syllabus and curriculum, wrote the handbook, printed off the handouts, prepared the overheads and tried to replace the lecture with workshops, games and discussions. A few weeks into the first time I implemented this approach one of my students asked when I was going to lecture them.
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  1. "That's whatyou are paid to do!!" • When challenged on my lack of lectures… • I smugly pointed out the genius of my alt.ed approach to which he replied; "You have to lecture us, that's what you are paid for!" • (Or, put another way, discussion is not seen as "work" and they wanted to see me work "hard" for my money) • Lesson 1 is?
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  2. The Lectern@OxfordUniversity • Of course when I got really good at lecturing, actually really good at e-learning, I was then asked to research it. We first developed the "Community Development Model of Learning" and I was asked to talk about it at Oxford University's "Shock of the Old" in the new Said Business School in a state of the art lecture theatre. As we were all e-learning gurus they apologised for putting us in a "lecture" "theatre" but explained that they had invented the lecture when they were founded in 1093. They only had 30 books, all hand written, all locked away in the Library. They were unlocked, carried painfully from the library, rested on a "lectern" and then were read out to the assembly…
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  2. The Lectern@OxfordUniversity • So the original lecture came about because handwritten books were extremely expensive. • Each "pupil" was just making a personal copy for themselves to read and understand later; not in the "lecture." • So copying was the original form of education... • Lesson 2 is...?
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  3. Behind thedesk or in front of the desk? • Once I had earned some confidence in the classroom I realised I needed to stand in front of the desk rather than behind it. Behind the desk, and the lectern, I was just the distant deliverer of content, in the 1,000 year old Oxford University style, a fake expert because I owned THE text book (just a book of text!).
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  3. Behind thedesk or in front of the desk? • In front of the desk I was open to questioning, an approachable facilitator of learning. Q&A stimulates learning, if your students pop out (to the orchard) and chat amongst themselves learning will happen… • (e-chat is not cheat). • Lesson 3 is...?
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  4. Misunderstanding theAcademy • Despite the Renaissance #fakenews about Platos Academy it had a completely non-academic model of learning. It was in 3 parts. Building, Orchard and Gymnasium. Here was no syllabus or pedagogy. • You talked to Socrates in the building, who moaned that the emergence of books would ruin memory, chatted to your mates in the garden (read Platos Republic for lots of bits from this part) then exercised to refresh your body and brain. Learning was whatever was left over after that three-part process.
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  4. Misunderstanding theAcademy • Pedagogically curated Education emerged in the exceptionally mechanical 19th century when, first, the 1860 Museum Act provided a justification for taxonomies and, second, the 1870 Education Act encouraged local authorities to open schools; oh dear • Let the students create your subject Taxonomy… • Lesson 4 Is...?
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  5. Community ofScholars or… • My very first class, scheduled for 50 minutes, lasted just 10 minutes. • I rushed through the material delivering all the content I had prepared, asked if there were any questions and fled the room. • Straight into the staff room where I poured out my problems to my colleagues…
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  5. Community ofteachers… • They patiently explained that you had enough material to fill the time IF you included students and went through the material on a step by step basis checking; • If they had understood what you had said, and what problems they had in understanding what you were trying to say… • And add some responsive Q&A which eventually will… • Lesson 5 is...?
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  6. Cognitive Dissonance •There is much confusion about clarity of content, and many millions of wasted hours filming lectures. Along the lines of, if the smartest person on the planet tells you about XXX just think how much you can learn!!! (As we have seen) lecturing isn't learning, it's content delivery from someone else's book. • In fact, once you have the experience you can stimulate more learning by creating mild confusion in your learners rather than offering crystal-clear clarity…
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  6. Cognitive Dissonancein Lectures… • As long as you clarify "meaning" in the following week... • Let the student own the "Eureka" moment of understanding. Do not tell them what the Eureka moment is, rather give them just enough information to work it out for themselves. • Lesson 6 is...?
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  7. Flawed handoutsare better than perfect • The Eureka moment, when students really learn, is best achieved with poor, or acceptable resources; handouts and lectures. • They need a way into your materials, something that isn't intimidating in its perfection, something that can be chewed over in discussion with others. • I accidentally discovered this (like Bernie Dodge did with WebQuests) when…
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  • I accidentallydiscovered this when I realised that a handout on Information Systems from a definitive textbook had a flaw… • The diagram missed a critical information flow. • I prompted students until they found it. • The result was they assumed all handouts had flaws and looked for them... • Lesson 7...? 7. Flawed handouts are better than perfect
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  8. It's theQ & A that matters… • AND - students accept any lecturing style, as long as you know what you are talking about; they will decode your lecturing style and make sense of it for themselves. • Some years ago, on a Masters Degree on Information Systems and Technology we had a lecturer who was the number one expert on Intellectual Property and had written the number one textbook on IP. • But! She couldn't lecture…
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  8. Q&A –Guerrilla Questioning… • So we students got together before and after each lecture and worked out what we needed to learn. And started asking questions (which she was brilliant at answering) when she lost her way. • In my experience sharp questions from students, guerrilla questioning, provokes the best learning. • Lesson 8 is...?
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  9. Becoming CraftProfessionals • I've spent many years developing e-learning, and working with new pedagogies, like Heutagogy. • The big learning for e-learning developers is that your pedagogies have to be "perfect" as the tech will always fail you. • As someone said in a workshop I facilitated at e-learn 2006 "all learning is a mix of theorising and socialising."
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  9. Craft Professionals(10,000 hours) • In the main we are far too scared to "socialise" in the lecture theatre, but we are very happy to theorise. • We need to become craft professionals in teaching to get really good at relaxing and allowing student "socialising" to drive the learning; 10,000 hours. ITT! CPD!! CPD2!!! Academic Working Lives are 10,000 hours of prep, perhaps 3-5 years, to allow our own distinctive "craft professionalism" to emerge... • Lesson 9 is...?
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  10 The DigitalPractitioner • I met Simon Beard of Coventry University (who asked me to do this) on the national EMFFE project where we were looking at creating "e-mature," or e-learning ready educational institutions, in Further Education. • We provided some funding to test the model and Geoff Rebbeck lead on Human Resources and lecturing. Some years later Geoff helped us survey 1,000 "early years professionals" to establish emerging digital practice…
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  10 Digital Practicepersonal curious confident • We found, unexpectedly, some digital practitioners were using personal technology with confidence in colleges, and so were able to express curiosity in their learning design. • We decided that they were creating "Artfully-crafted, student-centred, learning experiences" • Lesson 10 is...?
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  •In sum youare a "broker" between; • the learner, who is interested in learning & •the education system, which is interested in accreditation... A History of Teaching in 10 Lectures
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  A History ofTeaching in 10 Lectures @ fredgarnett Coventry University 19 September 2018