roger schank

the future of training - his talk in Madrid

how we learn - how does learning work? from experience
somehow when we do school, we don't provide experiences.. instead we provide algebra, physics, etc, and very little affect memory.
he asked - how many learned the quad equation, how many can balance a chemical equation, nobody
that's not learning, that's school

we don't forget our experiences. we forget info that is drilled into us.


memory guides comprehension, the mind is an expectation device
learning occurs in the context of failed expectations
failure is critical to learning, Dewey, etc, which failures matter?
memory isn't functioning the way school thinks it is.

teaching is good advice delivered just in time, not lessons

Pele - everything is practice
temporarily memorizing is not learning


what should people be practicing at?
math - i don't use it
listen to lectures - no, but it does take practice
what should you be practicing?
experimentation
try things
learn how to experiment ought to be what school is about
we all conduct experiments on a daily basis. we just don't notice
planning
predicting
negotiation
talking

we all have the same goals.. everyone has their set of plans to fulfill goals 

only reason teaching doesn't work, teaching teaches the conscious
unconscious drives us
factual knowledge is totally unimportant
we have this idea that it matters
1990 encyclopedia britanica going to be dead, they thought i was a nut

curiosity drives learning, if you're not curious, you're not going to learn
very few people are curious about algebra, but some are, i was, but soon found out a lot of it wasn't useful
we learn by watching
really good teachers are not so important, nice to have

just in time instruction,
we are really good at story telling, we remind each other of stories, we have been telling stories to each other in every culture, we are set up to remember stories

his dragon story... learning things that you don't use, so that when they need skills, they don't remember them, never learned them
why aren't we teaching people how to think for themselves
story centered curriculum - live a fictional life - the one you are planning to do

barcelona - experiential mba program
what should they know: 7 courses, but also the cognitive processes that are going on during them
ie: diagnosis, something we do constantly all the time..
modeling and judgment
online course all about production, not about memorizing anything

reading books is not the point, what's most important is to try to do things and have experts available to help you

1905 - stanford - school should be factories, make factory workers
1889 - commissioner of ed - in dark, airless places, power to withdraw from physical event
school and training were designed so that people would not think for themselves

1) liberal arts ed
2) manual training

someone will decide to provide global experiential learning that is neither academic nor mindless training that teaches people to think in the context of employable skills, there should be 100's of them
software engineering program..

film is huge - they are stories... we will always tell stories


develop the best stuff in a learn it by doing style.

I have been named one of the world's top ten movers and shakers in e-Learning. The nomination was in part due to my collaboration with La Salle's Business Engineering School to build a learning-by-doing virtual MBA program.

edge - scroll down to Roger's suggested dangerous idea
kevin kelly on page 4
clay shirky on page 2
douglas rushkoff on page 6

don't worry - he will go to college - post

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