Signpost your learning content

You're making it harder for your students to retain what you're teaching if you don't

Signposting gives them an outline to hang your ideas (and their notes) on.
Signposting means showing students

> what you are going to cover
> what you are covering as you cover it
> what you covered
It doesn't mean being prescriptive.

It doesn't mean putting a lot of words on slides.

It doesn't mean you even need visuals: you can signpost with your words.
I find it's most helpful to think of signposting as a table of contents.

Your main takeaways are your chapters.

Show students what chapters to expect, and remind them often where they are in the overall journey.

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Creating tension in a learning experience

How do you balance giving learners what they want and getting them to explore on their own?

It's a spectrum of informational on one side and explorative on the other.
I believe you need to put learners in the context in which they will apply your lessons.

Sometimes that means presenting them with a problem they've never seen before.

That can be frustrating. It can feel like a waste of time.
But you have to create trust in your process such that learners will take that leap with you.

Most students will make mistakes and that's ok, because when you show them "the way" it will mean so much more to them personally.
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If you offer live cohorts for learning, should you provide playback options broken into segments?

To answer this, consider the nature of content consumption. 👇
In a live class, it's pushed consumption.

Students have to acquire knowledge in the order you present it.

It's linear, and should ideally be signposted.
When it's on-demand it's pulled consumption.

Students are looking to clarify or refresh on a particular topic they've identified as important to them.
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Do you have an online course?

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My agency partners with content experts to help them create courses, and I've written extensively about it.

If you want to learn about educational design, here's a start 👇
There are 5 areas to be familiar with:

∙ Basic Learning Concepts
∙ Beginner's Mindset
∙ Designing Your Course
∙ Developing Training Material
∙ Group Learning

Going to skip the long tweetstorm and provide a list of resources for you to digest in your own time.
1/ Basic Learning Concepts

This post covers core concepts you should know:

∙ pattern recognition
∙ prior knowledge
∙ principles over facts
∙ motivation
∙ deliberate practice & retrieval
∙ scaffolding, and
∙ spaced repetition

curiouslionlearning.com/how-do-i-teach…
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We can’t guarantee success

But we can do something better

We can deserve it
This brilliant idea comes from Addison's play Cato

"Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius – we’ll deserve it."
John Adams used it in a letter to his wife Abigail

"We can’t guarantee success in this war, but we can do something better. We can deserve it."
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Live notes from tonight's Write of Passage class with @david_perell and @will_mannon

How to overcome writer's block

Covering:

- Impostor syndrome
- Perfectionism
- Lack of time
- Crickets of indifference
>> Writing research

Research is what you do when you are living your life.

Write about things you've been researching all along.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said the job of the writer is to deal out "life passed through the fire of thought." (h/t) @aaronscottwhite
>> Avoid unforced errors

- Not being consistent

- Writing without total focus

- Using cliches

- Run-on sentences

- Trying to sound smart instead of writing for clarity

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- Writing about bland topics

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