Morning Buzz – 20 Ways to Use Microlearning to Add Value to Your Curriculum
Carla Torgerson
What is Microlearning?
Microlearning is content that is purposely shortened to enable the learner to fit learning within their work and personal lives.
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Pitch Two Options to Move from Order Taker to Trusted Partner
Laura Middlesworth
Six Steps to move from Order Taker to Trusted Partner
- Acknowledge and document initial request.
- Yes, that could work.
- Acknowledgement ≠ Commitment
- Conduct analysis.
- Determine what learners need to DO
- Identify true business problem.
- Establish stakeholder priorities.
- “Identifying a problem is more difficult than identifying a solution. Even more challenging? Prioritizing which problem to solve.” ~ Alan Dix
- Outline pros and cons of requested solution.
- Viewed from the business/stakeholders’ perspective.
- Formulate a contrasting solution & outline its potential benefits.
- Why a single alternative?
- Clear comparison of pros and cons.
- Minimize chances of choice overload.
- Why a single alternative?
- Craft your pitch.
- Maintain focus on business.
- Highlight key goal(s).
- Outline the two options, including:
- Characteristics of each.
- Clear benefits of alternative.
- Deliver your pitch and initiate dialogue.
- Align format with stakeholders’ preferences.
- Does not need to be grand or even formal!
Recommendations for the two-solution pitch:
- Do your homework before crafting the pitch and tailor it accordingly
- Keep it simple
- Be willing to hear “no” and proceed with the requested solution
- Identify – and minimize – the perceived risk of choosing something new or different
- Respect the decision maker
- Remain open to compromise
Orders might sound like:
- We just need training on…
- Just make a course for…
- Create a class about…
- Use this slide deck…
Recap:
- Demonstrate clear understanding of stakeholders’ priorities.
- Initiate dialogue about what else is possible.
- Build trust and rapport.
- Avoid outright rejection of requested solution.
General Session – Technology Trends That Will Enhance Human Performance
Technology should enable people to do things that they could not do without technology.
What are some emerging technologies that could have a big impact on education?
- Human Enhancement
- Human is an information processor.
- We can enhance this process, enhance our sensory input (to make our vision better, to make our hearing better, to make our knees better, etc.)
- Our kids will grow up with the technology and thought that “We get better as we age, not worse.”
- Internet of Things
- Connecting devices (things), and people through the internet.
- We generate more data than a doctor sees in a year. How do we use our data to define health and wellness?
- Augmented Reality
- Can view the physical and digital world, that they converge, and that we can interact with them in a 3-D way.
- The technology has been around for a long time. But, now we can collaborate — using this technology.
The superpower of Gen Z is that they are going to be able to use these technologies. They will be enhanced with technology, they will be connected through the internet of things, and they will have a seamless understanding of the physical/digital convergence. They will be digital collaborators.
How will Gen Z’s use of technology change the future workforce? They will be experts in how to communicate in the digital and physical world. As educators, we need to leverage that and find a way for them to collaborate in more ways. Then, we can find ways to assess that collaboration and that skill.
