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in outdated mythical beliefs1 of education: lecture, panel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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• Chris Waldreck• Flood• Tony George• Quarlo• Ota• Bruno Piatta• Marcosc• Emily Barney• Fusky• Jagendorf• MarkLobo• Doviende• e_Monk

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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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