robert gagne and the tenth event

Roll over (in your grave) Gagne! Neo is here to unbox the MATRIX!

It no longer has to be true that humans regress in Events as we age. Thank goodness Erik Erickson’ Stages of Psychosocial Development no longer apply! But what will we do with these pesky emotions when we can choose our own learning?

To remind you of Gagne’s Nine Nazguls:

  • Gain attention of the students
  • Inform students of the objectives.
  • Stimulate recall of prior learning
  • Present the content
  • Provide learning guidance
  • Elicit performance (practice)
  • Provide feedback
  • Assess performance

AND NOW: Inject all digital knowledge and endless virtual reference to facts at any step. Oh shit.

Where to include emotion? Erickson made a worthy stab at addressing this through the lens of his time, but nowadays the ITLS community seems to have reached the consensus that…

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