I loved this. He's a great presenter. Very calm and quietly amusing.
Cognitive Psychology interests me, especially in relation to how we might learn with digital audio - but I've not done much about investigating this beyond some cursor reading around modality. So I had my fingers crossed.
I liked his analaogy of "You can bring a child to the table, but you can't make them eat" - (though Kay told me on the way out that this just was not the way to go!). Having said that, I can't remember WTH the point was, so i think she was right! So much for cognitive psychology!
Quotable bits: "It's not what you teach, it's what they learn that counts." (Though what am I meant to do with this?) "Knowledge retention is a waste of time" (not sure if that is a direct quote, but it was close and so right (until you speak to a medic).
One of several presenters BTW that have used video in their presentations to good effect - as high impact punctation to underline key ideas. Classic media interventions. He had quite a lot to say about video design and how users of video can be guided in their use of it recognising the need to avoid cognitively overloading students.
I'll be checking out some of his papers at http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/id/
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If I had to summarize his keynote in a sentence, I would say this:
Learners need complex, challenging learning tasks - but the challenge should be directed towards what they learn, rather than how the learn it.
So basically, reduce barriers to learning such as presenting information in ways the brain has trouble understanding it.
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