Nikos Michelioudakis - Helping People Help Themselves | VocTEL 2015

1. “Helping People
Help Themselves”
By Nick Michelioudakis

3. 4 Key Principles
• Establish routines
• Give yourself control
• Create and share
• Reflect

5. Establish routines
• Ego Depletion: Willpower is exhaustible
• Routines prevent depletion
• Moral: Establish routines

6. BBC Homepage

7. Control matters
• Why is control important?
• Helen Langer’s research
• Moral: Give yourself control
• Technology and interactivity

8. Cueprompter

11. Create and Share
• We love creating things
• …but we also need to display them
• Moral: Create and share

12. EdPuzzle

14. Reflection
• Why reflect? [1]
• R: ‘Write to Learn’
• Why reflect? [2]
• Evaluation
• Planning ahead
• Consolidation
• Moral: Reflection → Independence

15. Penzu

17. Nick Michelioudakis
+30 6932123166
www.michelioudakis.org
nickmi@ath.forthnet.gr
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18. Eyercize