Crafting videos and lectures that stick: Scissor Paper Rock Overview
Channel: Michael Noetel Performance Psychologist
Date: 28/05/2020

There’s not a linear relationship between content and learning. It’s not like the more you give, the more students learn. Yes, many teachers don't give enough detail, but you can have too much of a good thing. When we provide too much information for our students, we can overload them to a point where they feel terrible, incapable, or overwhelmed. There are ways of teaching that make it much less likely that we'll overload students. Throughout this program, we'll learn to teach in a way that accounts for our brain's limitations. We'll use what we call the scissor, paper, rock model. With scissors, you'll learn how to cut the stuff that makes it really hard for students. With paper, we'll learn what to put on paper, what to avoid, and why. With rock, we'll learn how to make things concrete and tangible. And finally we'll learn what the rules of the game—scissor, paper, rock—tell us about learning. By the end of the program you'll learn that avoiding the curse of knowledge is a piece of cake.

For a peer reviewed take on how to create the most effective multimedia, see our paper in Review of Educational Research, the SJR #1 journal in education: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/00346543211052329
Open-access pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/pynzr/