0249 - Storytelling for Learning by Allen Higgins

[this one is for Séamas who kept asking if there was a recording of the talk I did for our Faculty Teaching and Learning Insights series...]

A short talk by me (Allen Higgins) 

A Socratic questioning style for teaching/learning using a simple three-part structure: introduction, a series of questions, and closing comments.

The hard part, or the art, is in asking good questions.

Questioning 'story', or more specifically, 'storytelling' for teaching and learning.

There is no set formula for creating a story, let alone a good story, but there is structure you can employ to help the process. 

For my own practice, when discussing ideas, I look for sequence, connections and flow.

·       Sequence: the classic, beginning middle and end.

·       Connections: call forwards, call backs, links to other sources, ideally, other related material you have written/recorded.

·       Flow: a natural logic or order of conversation.

Notes and further reading:

A link to the YouTube video version (link)

William Labov’s analysis of structure in oral narratives (link).

Freytag’s Pyramid - the stages of a narrative arc with rising and falling action (link).

Christopher Brooks seven basic plots.

Andrew Reagan’s illustration of six emotional arcs of narrative structure (link)

Joseph Campbell’s classic analysis of mythic narrative structure, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)

John Van Maanen’s Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (1988)

On visual storytelling or storytelling with data.

Edward Tufte’s “The visual display of quantitative information” (1983).

Edward Tufte’s “Visual explanations: images quantities evidence and narrative” (1997).

The “Carte Figurative des pertes successives en hommes de’l’Armée Français dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813” (link)

John Snow’s Broad Street epidemiology map (link)

Andy Kirk’s (2019) CHRT(S) taxonomy for thinking about what kind of chart is best for your kind of data.

Acknowledgements

Music

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