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For the first time in history, we are able to
tap directly into the learning brain. Technologies like EEG used in learning
groups at schools and in companies or organizations are dramatically changing
our understanding of how people learn and develop skills, particularly in group
settings.
In this session, a preview of his presentation
at Serious
Play June 23-25, John Kolm will describe how machines are indeed reading
minds, and how this informs some new discoveries in teaching and learning from
work done at UCLA, Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere. Every part of
teaching and learning will be affected, not just online training. More
important even than the technologies are the new discoveries in education which
they have enabled. Come to this session to get up to date on how these new
discoveries will affect your role as an educator.
The technologies themselves, which are
increasingly available and inexpensive, gather data from the brain that will
become indispensable in the teaching and learning programs of K-12 schools: how
students and student groups behave as they experience success, failure, high
challenge, low challenge, different learning and classroom structures and methods
to assess and react to student challenges, engagement, and behavior. Utilizing
these capabilities will be a core skill for all teachers in the next two to
five years.
This session will present an overview
specifically aimed at your needs, and which is intended to help you evaluate
the many changes and also some of the wild claims – some justified, and some
not. A practical demonstration is included, and a discussion will follow.
You will leave excited, or scared, or both.
John Kolm is a career specialist in team and
leadership development. Born in Australia and having served for ten years in
the Australian and U.S. intelligence communities, he emerged with a firm
conviction that learning needs to change in order to fit the modern workplace.
Organizations John works with in this field include IBM, Toyota, Pfizer,
Intelsat, the U.S. State Department, the FDA, NASA and the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management among many others. In 2004 John wrote a global best-seller
on success and leadership at work, “Crocodile Charlie and the Holy Grail”,
published by Penguin in seven languages and fourteen countries. Now in the
fourth edition, a sequel will be out soon.
John’s academic background is in math and
psychology. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne in psychology and
math, and the U.S. National Cryptologic School in pure and applied math. His
academic interests include some of the mathematical ideas behind team in group
behavior, group learning and group performance, team neurodynamic dynamic
behavior and state transitions within learning teams, and above all, how all is
this can be combined by practical trainers and educators into clear behavioral
results with students in the here and now. John lives in Potomac MD with his
wife and son.
John Kolm will be speaking at the 2020 Serious
Play Conference.
Up Next:
Real Games Used by Real Teachers for Real
Learning
Led by John Fallon and Paul Darvasi
Thursday, April 30, 8 p.m. Eastern / 5 p.m.
Pacific
How to Turn Games & Activities into Tools
of Evaluation & Assessment
Led by Marcia Downing
Wednesday, May 6, 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m.
Pacific
For more information on this three-day
conference, go to: