The Psychology of Change

Michael Baker, Jr.

Snake Oil

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A.PL.U.S. Learners

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L.A.M.E. Teaching Method

Audio-Sequential

Visual-Spatial

http://www.visualspatial.org/vslasl.php

Onomatopoeia

Ono - mat - opo - eia

Everything Old is New Again

The Diffusion of Innovation

How to utilize The Diffusion of Innovation.

1.Understand everyone adapts to change at different rates and in

different ways.2.Keep the Innovators separate

from the Laggards.3.Slow and steady wins the race.

4.Sometimes you must lose control.

Collective Intelligence

William Morton Wheeler

&Alfred EmersonSuperorganisms

1911

Entomologists compared

insect groups to cells

E Pluribus Unum

"Out of many, one."

How to utilize collective intelligence.

1.Avoid 'Group Think' at all costs!2.Make yourself small

3.Clear Expectations must be easily communicated.

4.Stay positive for positive change.

Three driving questions: What is working? What isn't working? What can WE

improve?

Functional Fixedness

Karl Duncker

1945

Renée Grinnell ~ A form of cognitive bias in which a person is unable to think

of other, more creative uses for an object aside from its traditional use.

Functional Fixedness

Odyssey of the Mind

Spontaneous Challenges!

How to avoid 'Functional Fixedness'.

1.Look at the view from 10,000 Feet.2.Avoid giving bias to your own ideas.

3.Listen to everyone with an open mind.4.Ask a kid.

The Power of Empathy & Emotions

Cortisol vs.Oxytocin

If you are liked, individuals focus on your strengths.

If you are not liked, individuals focus on your weaknesses.

How to utilize empathy and emotions for change.

1.Understand the purpose and benefits2.Dare to care

3.Be the hardest worker in the room4.Constantly connect the purpose to

the people5.Be likable

Hedonic Treadmill

Brickman and Campbell coined the term in their essay "Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society" (1971).

Past Ideas.

InnovationInnovation

Crazy Idea

Proven Ideas Pilot

The evolution of change.

My Three Questions

1.Who are our students?2.How can we adjust to their

needs?3.How do we better communicate?

Isn't this Universal Design for Learning?

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