The document provides tips for creating engaging presentations and content for educators. It discusses how to avoid information overload by using simplicity, meaning, and balance. Less is more when it comes to content - use visuals, stories, and minimal text. Design with the audience in mind to ensure the content is understandable and meaningful.

1. [Welcome]

2. FOR EDUCATORS DESIGN presentation

3. 4 Goals

4. Learn Compare Apply Understand 4 goals

5. FOR EDUCATORS DESIGN presentation How design thinking can help inform classroom practice

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7. simplicity meaning balance

9. “ We have learned more about how the mind works in the last twenty-five years than we did in the last twenty-five hundred.” - Daniel T. Willingham

12. Information Overload

14. We can read about words/minute We can listen to words/minute We can write about words/minute We can copy about words/minute 250-300 150-160 31 22

18. simplicity meaning balance

19. “ Simple and simplistic are as different as complex and complicated. ” -Emmanuel Gobbilot

22. ” “ I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass

23. 10-20-30

24. Use c o l o r wisely.

26. This doesn’t help much either

27. Perhaps white would be better?

28. Ah, that’s better.

29. In the world of color …

30. … contrast is king.

31. decoration design

32. simplicity meaning balance

35. Why present? To make meaning

36. Why teach? To make meaning

37. meaning

38. tell more stories

39. The unit of intelligibility of most of our brains is the story . - Dr. Stuart Brown “ ”

40. Look for this!

41. Dr. Bonnie Bassler Princeton University Dr. Hans Rosling Karolinka Institute

43. Dr. Hans Rosling

44. Picture Superiority Effect

45. ” “ Even though cognitive development, practice and scaffolding support increasingly more sophisticated skills as students gain experience and maturity, there is no guarantee that they will recognize and effectively coordinate the representations that are afforded by the worlds of school and the rest of life. (Schwartz & Fischer 2004)

46. ” “ When learners begin the problem-solving process in a new situation, they first use primitive skills , not their most sophisticated ones. (Schwartz & Fischer 2004)

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51. Quick-Write Ask a question Think-Jot-Pair-Share Poll the class Turn and Talk

52. This is not the teacher.

53. You are the teacher!

54. simplicity meaning balance

56. Designer

57. designer

58. “ Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones .” - Herbert Simon

59. imitation We learn through

60. ” “ The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood…he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons. - Aristotle

61. Dr. Bonnie Bassler Princeton University Dr. Hans Rosling Karolinka Institute

62. simplicity meaning balance

63. ” “ Truth exists outside all molds. - Bruce Lee

64. Your turn.

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