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 4, Spiral
April 21, 2022
In which I shine the light on a French police drama and its treatment of passion versus duty. This is a model we can steal from in L&D because we often use drama to discuss how to deal with rules when they conflict with your emotions. Head versus heart.
