Online Teaching Reflections

In 2013 I was honored to deliver a TED Talk as part of TED Talks Education on PBS. In the talk I outlined three lessons I gleaned from my thoracic surgeon about how to learn complex tasks with confidence. I translated them into three rules that I then shared in the talk and in this book. Below are the three rules, and how they are playing out, in very tangible, simple ways, in my daily online teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Rule #1: Curiosity Comes First

• Delaying direction instruction as much as I can in any given period to make the information gap more salient and a cognitive DESIRE for the information.

Rule #2: Embrace the Mess

• I am trying a bunch of new stuff. Some which works and some which fails.

Rule #3: Practice Reflection.

• This blog series. Some of you read it. Many have unsubscribed. But...putting the pressure on myself to share insights has made this process more meaningful, and energizes me in the context of this horrible global scenario.