- Learning styles
- Dale’s Cone of Learning with % (people remember 10%…)
- Presentation of learning objectives to the learners
- People forget 90% of what they learned after 7 days
- 70:20:10 model and 10% formal learning
- We only use 10% of our brains…
- MBTI is valid
- Elearning is less expensive than classroom learning
- Feedback to learners should always be immediate
Although Will doesn’t rank the myths, one of the most popular blogs he has written relates to Dale’s Cone of Learning – this is a whopper of a myth and so has to be up there in the top 3. In his blog Will reminds us
The fact that our field is so easily swayed by the mildest whiffs of evidence suggests that we don’t have sufficient mechanisms in place to improve what we do. Because we’re not able or willing to provide due diligence on evidence-based claims, we’re unable to create feedback loops to push the field more forcefully toward continuing improvement. Isn’t it ironic? We’re supposed to be the learning experts, but because we too easily take things for granted, we find ourselves skipping down all manner of yellow-brick roads.
Tomasz also makes reference to a useful debunking handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky which is also an interesting read.
Will is one of my go-to sources for debunking – another is Ben Goldacre – we need more people like this to spread the truth and help us get education cleaned up.
Hi John! Thank you for empowering the interview with Will Thallheimer. The more people reads it the better!
Hi Tomasz,
Not a problem – it needs to be more widely read and hopefully it will get more traction. Great work on your part.