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 5, The Queen’s Gambit
Episode 5 features The Queen’s Gambit. In which I reveal how this exemplary show articulates point-of-view. There’s a misguided tendency in L&D to equate literal point-of-view with the creation of empathy. Point-of-view in drama doesn’t work like that and here’s why.