Are you looking for lectures or learning? The reason I ask is because brain research shows how lectures rarely go together with learning as we’d once hoped. That leads to the next obvious question, “Have you ever wonder why we give talks and lectures as if unaware that listeners retain less than 5% from such delivered facts?”
William Yeats inspired a more useful question when he said, “Learning is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” How would you facilitate learning that ignites fires for participants. Hopefully this interactive roundtable will spark a few new ideas.
Ask the lecturer in this video and he will likely say he engages listeners. He might even go on to suggest today’s audiences expect too much and give too little. Ask listeners and they may support these 100 reasons to run hard from lectures!
But when we support genuine efforts to transform lectures into active tasks –we’ll never look back! Or when we coach a radical move away from delivery of facts to discovering new applications for those facts – we tell magical stories about how students and insights suddenly leap into life!
Most agree that change from telling to doing is rarely for the faint of heart, though.
Have you considered brain based reasons below to run from lectures?
1. Lecturers benefit far more than listeners.
2. Opposing views get missed in most lectures.
3. Research shows that most people speak from bias.
4. Polls show growth comes through applications.
5. People learn through at least 8 intelligences.
6. Risk-taking aids progress in innovative era.
7. New neuro discoveries support guide to side.
8. Most lectures fail to capitalize on differences.
9. Plasticity literally reshapes the active brain.
10. In doing and relating you tame your amygdala.
11. You retain 90% by teaching, 5% by listening.
12. Better to integrate through internet searches.
13. Lack of applying as you learn blocks growth.
14. Resist novelty and get locked in basal ganglia.
15. Renew capabilities by attempting differences.
16. Chase questions for cognitive boost and ahas.
17. Add to improvements, it beats critiquing talks.
18. When knowledge is shared, people are capital
19. Multiple Intelligences offer tools for learning.
20. Celebrate innovation by engaging community.
21. Goodwill builds across differences with practice.
22. Stack people’s deck by mutual exchanges.
23. One talker rarely owns value teams can generate.
24. Serotonin increases in good communications.
25. The mind is stretched by chasing curiosity.
26. To do is to encounter innovative possibilities.
27. Neuro discoveries reveal doing parts of brain.
28. Stress and cortisol from boredom shrinks brains.
29. Traditional skills in past eras yield to new skills.
30. IQ is not fixed and grows by doing as you learn.
31. Play stretches and grows mind for novel results.
32. People lecture from bias more than from facts.
33. Unethical habits can be mimicked from talks.
34. Emotions as key to learning – need exercise.
35. Talkers can turn civility into arrogance on stage.
36. Many people who differ are felt behind in talks.
37. People learn to disagree from active exchanges.
38. People dislike meetings where one only talks.
39. Collective brainpower is needed for novelty.
40. Math intelligence develops by doing math.
41. Verbal IQ develops by communicating more.
42. Visual IQ develops by designing images.
43. Kinesethic IQ grows by moving & building.
44. Interpersonal IQ increases by relationships.
45. Intrapersonal IQ grows by personal reflection.
46. Naturalistic IQ grows as nature adds solutions.
47. IQ increases when you lead with your strengths.
48. Brains rewire nightly based on what you do daily.
49. Learning increases through 2-footed questions.
50. Alpha brain waves shift down a gear in boredom.
51. All come with unique mix of intelligences.
52. Train dolphins, develop human brains by doing.
53. Einstein held that lectures kill creativity.
54. You learn best by teaching others as you learn.
55. Better to teach your dog than listen passively.
56. Dendrite brain cells grow as you use intelligences.
57. Solve real problems and inspire a finer future.
58. When people come first, knowledge is shared.
59. Rarely does invention spring from lecture hall.
60. You grow in response to your mental activity.
61. Speakers bore more for good reason.
62. Venting grows brain cells for more venting.
63. Lectures replicate talker yet ignore listener.
64. Passivity or listening yields less rewired brains.
65. Mindguiding is novel way to mutually learn.
66. Create, invent, and process new systems.
67. Universities awaken with learners at center.
68. Active encounters shape entire communities.
69. Lectures can stunt rather than spike learning.
70. Investigate new ideas and apply as you go.
71. Engage strengths to shore up weaknesses.
72. Lecture fail to diversify so miss differences.
73. Hebbian learners resist change -demand same.
74. Racism and sexism go unchecked in lectures.
75. Guard status quo and rarely boost brainpower.
76. Communities of passion grow collective IQ.
77. Brain daily defaults to ruts unless you differ.
78. Boost innovative IQ by risking new practices.
79. Default to ruts by doing same approaches.
80. Survey meetings to hear people’s view.
81. Tap potential from more human brains.
82. Facilitate with brains in mind for growth.
83. More win if people speak and feel heard.
84. More communication leaves behind jargon.
85. Multiple literacies are needed in next era.
86. Lectures rarely engage voices on other side.
87. Cross silos in favor of active skill integration.
88. Lectures use less diverse tools for lower gains.
89. Broken systems cling to outmoded lectures.
90. Brilliance come from pools just outside talks.
91. New neuron pathways grow by applying.
92. Lectures tend to shroud toxic workplaces.
93. Talking works against listener’s brains.
94. Mind-bending communities opt for challenges.
95. Cynics kills incentives through lectures.
96. It’s hard for sage on stage to model inclusion.
97. Few tone tactics learned when few talk.
98. Passive listeners tend to follow crowd.
99. Lectures increase dangers of meta messages.
100. Broken systems reconfigure by active minds.
Whew! That’s a fair bit of running away from …. And now it’s time to run toward … Let’s learn growth mindset possibilities in brain based tasks with strong mental health – fit for our new era. Brain based tools build endless possibilities to ignite and fuel fires that change lives.
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