CEP009 - Meta Learning Electronics with Mike Cheich and Phil FitzGerald

<ul> <li>About the guests/host <ul> <li><a href="https://www.programmingelectronics.com/">Mike Cheich runs Programming Electronics academy</a>. He has also been on <a href="https://theamphour.com/276-eating-an-elephant/">Chris's other podcast in the past.</a></li> <li><a href="https://thecompellingmessage.com/">Phil FitzGerald is an educational coach via The Compelling Message</a></li> <li>Chris teaches at <a href="https://contextualelectronics.com/course-types/">Contextual Electronics</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Discussion topics <ul> <li>Teaching how to make a sandwich</li> <li>Is the knowledge in reach and is it relevant?</li> <li>Most people that are in Programming Electronics are hardware hobbyists who want to get into programming, usually through Arduino</li> <li>It can be intimidating learning electronics because of the breadth of knowledge required</li> <li>Phil-ism: Accreditation, certification, celebration.</li> <li>Self evaluation matters at the beginning of education</li> <li>SME = Subject Matter Expert</li> <li>Analogy of creating a map within a city (mapping out London)</li> <li>Selling people on the end point of a learning journey</li> <li>Learners normally don't care as much about the specifics of the journey</li> <li>After the fact, learners will rose c0lor the specifics of how they got to the point they're at</li> <li>DITLO = Day in the life of</li> <li>Chris struggles with how traditional education was teaching electronics</li> <li>Mike likes finding the guiding principle within the electronics universe</li> <li>Two tracks - thinking (theory) and doing (practice)</li> <li>Designing your own 5 year map of curriculum</li> <li>Phil-ism: You can't show it if you don't know it</li> <li>Extending your knowledge of how maps work by being able to create a map in a new city</li> <li>Creating lists of things to do, or not to do</li> <li>Mike is learning how to 3D printing, which was a new learning journey</li> <li>Facing failure and understanding what you should do when that happens</li> <li>Drawing your map so you understand what you do and don't know</li> <li>Keeping notes is so you reinforce your own knowledge. In Phil's example, this might take the form of a map. Phil explains in more detail in the video below: *</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect">The Dunning Kruger Effect</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JQ3FN7M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">Make It Stick by Peter Brown</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/">Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset</a></li> <li>Removing barriers to learning when a learner experiences a problem (QR Code example)</li> <li>Sleeping on a problem (or stepping away from a problem)</li> <li>Accreditation is someone verifying you know what you claim to know</li> <li>&quot;What comes before that&quot; is an important question when mapping out the steps required to learn something</li> <li>Maps start as post-it notes</li> <li>Creating analogies</li> <li>Breaking down individual elements of the learning process and relating it back to that analogy</li> <li>How do you quantify &quot;show it to know it&quot;?</li> <li>Chris is a proponent of <a href="https://forum.contextualelectronics.com/c/build-log/8">&quot;Build Logs&quot; (which is also a section on the CE Forum)</a></li> <li>What do you notice in the thing you want to build?</li> <li>Thinking about the steps that indicate you're about to get to the next step? (ie. Which stop comes before the stop you're going to get off at on the train)</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification">Dewey Decimal System</a></li> <li>Sometimes courses try to constrain the possible paths of research, as that can get overwhelming</li> <li>The downside to learning in the modern day is how many sources of distraction there are (ie. phones)</li> <li>Guided path examples</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Implementation-Patterns-Kent-Beck/dp/0321413091">Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck</a></li> <li>Learning something well enough to teach is holding yourself to a higher standard</li> <li>Check out Phil's site <a href="https://thecompellingmessage.com/">The Compelling Message</a> and check out his book!</li> <li>Mike teaches electronics on <a href="https://www.programmingelectronics.com/">Programming Electronics Academy</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Thank you for supporting The Contextual Electronics Podcast! 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