avoid the conference zombie zone
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AVOID THEPutting The
Learning Research To Work In Your Conference
ZOMBIE ZONE:
Try to inject infointo attendees heads
through lectures and panels
Leave shuffling, brain dead,
passively consuming info
Learning - a biological process in
Just receiving information does
not lead to learning or
change
not lead to learning or
change
Confront Gothic elements of most
conferences education
not lead to learning or
change
Confront Gothic elements of most
conferences education
Lecture Lunacy – “sit-n-get”
Produce Inoculation,
Diagnose, Rally Resistance
Develop Antidote
Walking Dead
Symptoms ThatYour
Conference
Is CreatingThe Walking
Dead
Leaders barricade themselves
in outdated mythical beliefs1 of education: lecture, panel
Leaders resort to familiar, comfortable refuge, fortified spaces and status quo.
Leaders denyglobal change &
2education being
world is undergoing
transformed &disrupted!
3Leaders try to revive pastselect topics & speakers.become
with zombified processes to
Zombiesthemselves.
They
4Attendees are zombieor actively participating.
learners, never thinking
5Intellectual inquiry, discussions, & audience
pair or threesomeparticipation, are seen ashallucinatory absurdities.
6Lectures, panels createOne thinking is
living dead as the only speaker.
Zombie hordes shuffle from session to session as7 if they are sleep walking.
Conference has a police controlled atmosphere8 where attendees not in
control of own learning.
Focus on experts & industry expertise as 9 speakers instead of attendees as learners.
Rarely do leaders choose speakers that 9 have understanding of
learning & facilitation.
If your conference has any of these symptoms you
are creating the walking dead!
Survivors of
Apocalypse
Zombie
appreciate thatthe world has
changed!
Vital for conference organizers
to understand that old
educationmethods are
dead!
Remember if you conference hasa zombie
infection, you must act
An unnerving change has occurred
There has been death, which confronts us with the factsomething welong held dear, is not the same!
We can try to embrace good old
days but must realize they created zombies.
Oh God! Do you see them?This is where they grow them!
What the heck are they?They’re us,
that’s all.Don’t let them become us!
What is the antidote ofZombism? 1. Critical Thinking
2. Deep Learning not surface knowledge!
3. Content uncoveredby learner not
content coveredby speaker!
4. Evidence Based Education
5. Authentic LearningNot Mimicry
6. Going beyond info giving &
assimilation to application.
7. Solving problems by thinking
not defending outdated beliefs &
relying on memory!
• Darwin Bell• Pink Sherbert
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Images by:
• The Art of Changing The Brain: Enriching The Practice Of Teaching By Exploring The Biology Of Learning by James E. Zull
• Learner Centered Teaching by Terry Doyle
• Romero’s 1978 Dawn Of The Dead
• Siegels’ 1956 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
• Visible Learning & The Science Of How We Learn by John Hattie & Greg Yates
• Zombies In The Academy: Edited by Andrew Whelan, Ruth Walker and Christopher Moore
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