Helping experts share their know-how & novices to discover it
Fluffy scripts. Who needs them?
How do you turn theories into engaging content? When you’ve no idea how they work in real-life?
Want to get to the nub of the matter? And create workable scripts?
Help experts bring lofty ideas down to earth. Here’s how. [Read more…]
At the end of the last post – the first in a series of three – I asked how we can help experts make themselves understood?
So they beat the Curse of Knowledge and make helpful videos, podcasts, microblogs etc.
The Curse of Knowledge is a cognitive phenomenon. We can’t change the way the brain works, but we can take action to overcome its impact.
To do this, experts need to do three things:
The Curse of Knowledge means we forget what it’s like not to know what we know. (I explain why this happens in the first post in this series.)
But many experts also forget what it felt like not to know what they know. Because the further you move from beginner to expert, the more you forget your own struggles to master your subject.
It’s why experts get frustrated or bewildered when people don’t understand. [Read more…]
What makes people give up?
It’s disheartening, because you want people to get it. You want to help.
So what goes wrong?
Well, this story might help. I used to teach literacy skills to young people who had missed years of schooling. For some, writing more than two sentences was an achievement.
One day, Jess (not her real name) proudly gave me ten lines of writing – with no punctuation. To encourage her progress, I suggested she make it even better with some full stops.
Let’s be honest.
It’s a free-for-all out there.
More and more people are sharing what they know. It’s like a rush of prospectors searching for gold. So it’s hard to be heard.
Do you struggle to get people’s attention? Let’s dispel some doubts.
Your problem isn’t that you’re mining the wrong subject. Your problem isn’t that others got there first. And your problem definitely isn’t a lack of things to say.
Your problem is you’re sitting on the gold mine. But don’t know it.
rebecca@stickyteaching.co.uk
@stickyteaching