our earliest instincts around

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education are actually based on
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storytelling we know this from
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archeological data people telling other
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people stories people teaching other
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people using human stories it's how we
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learned and it's how we communicate it
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fast-forward 40,000 years we now have
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beautiful scalable mobile enabled
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eLearning that we can use to teach
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people on opposite ends of the world the
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same thing at the same time but
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somewhere between the caves and the
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clicking
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we got so focused on building this
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technology that we forgot about the one
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and only thing that matters in education
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the people elearning can be used to
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teach everyone everywhere good hygiene
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practices to stop the spread of disease
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elearning can be used to teach everyone
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everywhere sustainable living practices
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to combat the climate crisis these are
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global problems they require global
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solutions an e-learning should be making
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a contribution to them but it isn't it
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isn't because we've forgotten about the
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people we've forgotten about the way
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people actually learn if there's one
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thing that everyone in this room can do
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to start refocusing your efforts on
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people and to start doing elearning that
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works it's this start telling stories
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again not because it's what we used to
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do but because the science says it
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actually works
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we know that scenario and story based
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learning can accelerate our time to
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expertise on a given task it does that
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because stories simulate the way we
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learn through experience we know that
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scenario or story based learning is more
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engaging than clique than quiz eLearning
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the reason why is that stories create
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empathy empathy in turn creates personal
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meaning and it's personal meaning not
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clicking that drives engagement and
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finally we know that scenario or story
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based learning is the best way to teach
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complex skills like problem-solving
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collaboration and creativity precisely
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the skills that the workforces of today
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and tomorrow need to solve our biggest
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Problems
if we did it that way we'd be
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simulating a real-world experience and
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therefore accelerating expertise we'd be
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creating empathy for the lived
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experience of intersectionality and
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therefore deepening engagement and we'd
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be exposing them to the nuances of
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unconscious bias and therefore improving
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their collaboration skills when we
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compare this story based approach to a
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cliquey module it's no contest which one
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is more likely to change our behavior
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it's the one based on the human story we
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need to start telling these human
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stories again it's not gonna be easy it
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means you can't keep cutting and pasting
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content into an e-learning module it
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means giving up the avatars giving up
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the dragon drops giving up the quizzes
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but it'll be worth it it'll be worth it
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because if we can get back to telling
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these human stories again we can get
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back to why we all got into education in
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the first place we can get back to
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empowering people let's start telling
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stories again thank you