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 2, It’s a Sin
April 21, 2022
In which I look at Channel 4’s flagship “issue drama” and its lessons for L&D. Stories are moral, but you don’t always have to draw them to a conclusion. You message is strongest when you make your audience work to make meaning.Plus, how to dramatize exposition.
