This Will Revolutionise Education
In this short Veratisium video it is argued that no technology is superior to another for education. Despite repeated claims, no technology has revolutionised education.
Is this because what limits education is what happens in the learner’s mind?
Gradually we are finding out more about how to make technology-assisted learning work more effectively (such as avoiding the split attention effect and other principles of multimedia learning). Yet some things ring true – the effective teacher, as always, is not the font of all knowledge, but the facilitator of experiences that lead to individual discovery, usually within a social context. Which begs the question, where does social media and FOAM fit into this?
Further reading
- Wiesbauer F. Teaching Masterclass: The Psychology of Learning. Medmastery
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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