I’m giving a talk about drama in learning at this year’s Learning Technologies event on May the 4th. so of course I had to reference Star Wars! This piece features ideas from the talk – in which I look at classic story structure and the power of drama to stimulate transcendent thinking. The notion of transcendent thinking – which leverages procedural and semantic memories in the service of broader knowledge – comes from learning researcher and theorist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Episode 1, Gogglebox
April 21, 2022
In which I reflect upon the anthropology of storytelling: how it functions to hold together large groups,how we see this demonstrated in Gogglebox and how we can apply this in the world of learning and development.
