Barriers to Adult Learning by Darin Arnold

Barriers to Adult Learning

Published on Oct 24, 2019

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October 24th, 2019

Steven Katz, Lisa Ain Dack

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Barriers to Adult Learning

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Barriers to Adult Learning

Congratulations!

This facilitation is not about a particular person, but rather the "roles" in your building

Brainstorm: What barriers do you feel like are your staff encountering?

Brainstorm: What barriers are you stuck behind?

Do we have a "culture of niceness" ?

Do we avoid conflict? Placate co-workers?

Can we have healthy conflict?

Does our environment support it?

Intentional Interruption

"People respond to the experience of a challenge by avoiding it altogether, or trying to turn something novel into something familiar so the feeling of challenge dissipates"

"Human beings take shortcuts to avoid thinking"

1. We don't think through all the possibilities

Sheldon Slide

Jack is looking at Ann, but Ann is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not.

Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?Yes, No or Cannot Be Determined

Disjunctive Reasoning

Most educators are "action people"

We prioritize getting something accomplished, rather than not

Do we spend enough time trying to "unpack the problem"

Experts vs. Novices - experts spend a long time mapping out the requirements of a problem

2. We focus on confirming our hypothesis - not challenging them

Aliens slide

Confirmation Bias - we look for the things that confirm, rather than confront our view

Confirmation Bias Video

"Always want to make sure I am right"

Anthony Muhammad: "we define ourselves as successful due to the system WE put in place"

Look at your article for the "threat assessment"What is highlighted?

Discussion: How does learning happen?

"Adoption increases the chance of an infertile couple getting pregnant naturally"

3. We pay too much attention to things that are vivid

Brick slide

Recognition Heuristic - we value things we recognize

We place a high value on ideas, strategies or resources that are well known (not itself problematic)

Discussion: Data-informed decision making

What are we looking for with data?

Why do we disaggregate data?

Most people just want to fix the problem, they don't want to know the cause

"Resistors are vivid because their resistance is overt"It draws our attention

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4. We consider ourselves to be exceptions

Han Solo Slide

Illusory-Superiority Bias: We tend to overestimate our strengths and underestimate our weaknesses

Dunning-Kruger Effect Adam

Untitled Slide

Discussion: What makes good collaboration?

Teachers often believe that they don't need to learn anything

"My practice is fine. I'm not the one who needs to change, other people do."

"I've been teaching for 10 years. I don't need to go to new PD, they just need to leave me in my classroom"

Seek Disconfirmation

1. Challenging Others2. Being ChallengedCulture of Niceness

Discussion: RTI is a needs-based learning focus - how does this fit into the illusory-superiority and disconfirmation?

5. We hesitate to take action in a new direction

6 sense picture

Omission Bias - the tendency to favour an act or omission over one of commission

Inaction is also an action - You can harm by not doing anything

We want to preserve the status quo

"Doing nothing is not doing nothing. It is doing nothing NEW."

NBA stats show that referees make 50% less foul calls in the final moments of close games

Discussion: For PD - is it better to be narrow or wide? What are the risks?

Teachers are afraid to commit to things that are narrow. If it is narrow and doesn't work, I have wasted time/resources

Go to imgflip.com/memegeneratorWho can create the best meme on this topic?

6. We don't want others to see our vulnerabilities

Dwight meme

Imposter Syndrome - "I have no idea how I came to be where I am, but hopefully no one will find me out"

Discussion: How do we get teachers to deprivatize practice?

People prefer to be right over being wrong

How do we conceptualize mistakes? Window to vulnerability or chance for learning?

We punish mistakes in school. This comes naturally to teachers

Our goal should be to deepen understandingDisconfirmation

Review Game

You will be in groups of 3-4

One person will have their back to the screen, the other will face the screen

You must give your partner clues without saying the word on the screen directly.

Guess it correctly - get a prize. Run out of time - next group gets to go.

Conflict

Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

Yes, No or Cannot Be Determined

Look at your article for the "threat assessment"

What is highlighted?

"Resistors are vivid because their resistance is overt"

It draws our attention

Can you please go to www.kahoot.it

Enter the PIN:

1. Challenging Others
2. Being Challenged
Culture of Niceness

Go to imgflip.com/memegenerator

Who can create the best meme on this topic?

Our goal should be to deepen understanding

Disconfirmation

We will do a gallery walk when we are all done
There will be prizes for the best poster!