Thread by @SingleBlade1

"A proliferation of competing narratives is characteristic of the phase Thomas Kuhn calls ‘proto-science’ [...] This is where learning/training/education is today: proto-science. A mixed bag of popular stories about how people learn" - @shackletonjones 👀
aconventional.com/2020/05/just-s…

"I write this having recently read a number of comments/posts to the effect that learning ‘is just too complicated’ that there are always ‘many right answers’ or ‘everything depends on context’. This is the pre-evolutionary position: it’s all too complicated for a simple answer.

"One of the tell-tale signs is the sheer number of learning theories which are ‘creationist’ in nature – by which I mean that they are stories one can only tell about humans. Any time a learning theory can only meaningfully be applied to humans [...] we should take care" 👏

This 👆 is the problem "How People Learn" author @shackletonjones endeavoured to address with his "affective context model" & a key thought:

"We don't remember experiences. We encode reactions to experiences, and use these feelings to reconstruct them.

Here's a great five(ish) minute @shackletonjones provocation around what getting beyond "dumping content" might all mean in real-world practice. Includes "resources not courses" & building challenging experiences WITH your audience, not FOR your audience👀