Course Design For Accelerated Learning (TechKnowCon; October 17, 2019)
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In this era of rapid technological change, getting our engineers up-to-speed with new skills is a core tenet of Twitter University's mission. Equally important is the need to keep this ramp up as short but as effective as possible: Our engineers are busy building the future of Twitter every single day and need these skills right away. This talk will focus on how Twitter University designs its technical courses to meet these goals. (find the talk at http://ivantur.es/hup9)
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- 1. Ivan Corneillet @ivantures Twitter University October 17, 2019 Course Design for Accelerated Learning
- 2. 2 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Warm-up. Two pieces of feedback. How much value did you provide your students with? “The class was basically a readout of the slides with little or no extra explanation. I could have done it on my own.” “The instructor’s explanations were easy to understand. Overall really good. Thanks!”
- 3. 3 Course Design for Accelerated Learning My background: Computer Scientist; High Performance Computing, large scale graph-based algorithms Data Scientist, Machine Learning Instructor Instructor; leveling up our engineering talent Guest Lecturer
- 4. Let’s look at some feedback from students Course Design for Accelerated Learning 4
- 5. 5 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Two pieces of feedback. How much value did you provide your students with? (cont.) “The class was basically a readout of the slides with little or no extra explanation. I could have done it on my own.” “The instructor’s explanations were easy to understand. Overall really good. Thanks!”
- 6. 6 Course Design for Accelerated Learning There’s not a single good thing said on the first feedback but the second one is not that much better: If your students learned too easily from a class, did they learned anything at all? “The class was basically a readout of the slides with little or no extra explanation. I could have done it on my own.” “The instructor’s explanations were easy to understand. Overall really good. Thanks!”
- 7. 7 So let’s make things harder. Here are concepts, frameworks, and tools that we cover in our “Building and Deploying Services” class at Twitter: Microservice Architecture Finagle Twitter Front End Pants Service Scaffolding Technology Stack Distributed Resource Manager Finatra Apache Mesos Network Server Packer Apache Thrift Deploying Services Beaker Application Logic Services Logic Services Job Scheduler JVM Storage Services Targets Technology Stack Redeploying Services Source Runtime REST Frameworks Aurora TwitterServer Scala BUILD filesRPC Framework and more… Course Design for Accelerated Learning
- 8. 8 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Imagine receiving this feedback from your students. How much value did you provide them with? “Lots of valuable content but two hours was insufficient to cover it all. An abbreviated content would be more suitable.”
- 9. 9 Course Design for Accelerated Learning This class provided some value to the students. But, as instructors, we tend to cram too much in our classes. Then our students become frustrated. “Lots of valuable content but two hours was insufficient to cover it all. An abbreviated content would be more suitable.”
- 10. 10 Then classes become just stuff that nobody will remember. We still fail our students. Course Design for Accelerated Learning GigaGiffy @GigaGiffy nobody remembers anything from it and it makes no impact. it's just stuff 5 Oct 20191 1 Above the Law @atlblog #5 In-House: What To Do In A World Where Nobody Remembers Anything 22 Oct 20171 5
- 11. So, how do we go about really teaching everything they need to learn then? Course Design for Accelerated Learning 11
- 12. 12 #1. Let’s have our students acknowledge that learning is hard... Course Design for Accelerated Learning I see #effort as the path to #mastery! Sometimes though I have to remind myself about it :) Samppa Lahtinen @SamppaSOS 28 Sep 20164 brynmrk @brynmrk "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." —Carl Sagan 2 Oct 20191 Marcelo Miwa @MarceloMiwa "No pain, no gain" ; "Feel the burn" (Jane Fonda) 2 Jan 2019
- 13. 13 Yep. Even for us. Course Design for Accelerated Learning Yep, #learning is #hard. Remembering my "no pain no gain"/"feel the burn" moments with Gym Tonic's Véronique and Davina. Ivan Corneillet @ivantures 16 Oct 2019
- 14. 14 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Growth Mindset leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to... … embrace challenges … persist in the face of setbacks … see effort as a path to mastery… learn from criticism … find lessons and inspiration in the success of others Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck
- 15. 15 Course Design for Accelerated Learning #2. The “Why” before the “How” Why or the power of Storytelling Everyone loves story. So tell them one. A story allows your students to return to your content, post story, with a new perspective Why, why, why or the art of Conversation Invite your students to ask questions Lectures are one-ways. Conversations demand talking and listening in equal degrees (This is one way to practice retrieval learning, i.e., pull information out of your student’s heads.)
- 16. 16 Course Design for Accelerated Learning The benefits of starting with “Why”, telling your students stories, and engaging them through conversations: For you, the instructor Forces you to prioritize what is important “Less is more” For your students Help them to learn “broadly” “See the forest for the trees”
- 17. 17 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Some more feedback. Better? “The material was designed to extend past the class. This interactive class highlighted the core concepts without getting bogged down by technical details.”
- 18. 18 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Some more feedback. Better? Yep. “The material was designed to extend past the class. This interactive class highlighted the core concepts without getting bogged down by technical details.” :hopeful:
- 19. 19 Course Design for Accelerated Learning #3. The “How” through “Pacing” and “Interleaving” Pacing Boost learning by spreading it up multiple times and overtime Interleaving Boost learning by interleaving similar concepts so students can think on what’s common and what’s different
- 20. Learning Twitter Futures in Action Course Design for Accelerated Learning 20
- 21. 21 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action Twitter Futures Twitter Futures is a fundamental construct that Tweeps must master
- 22. 22 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action (cont.) Building and deploying Twitter services Twitter Futures We first motive its need to new Tweeps so as to build highly scalable systems.
- 23. 23 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action (cont.) Building and deploying Twitter services Thriftservices atTw itter Twitter Futures Then when building an real microservice, we go over some core constructs of Futures.
- 24. 24 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action (cont.) Building and deploying Twitter services Thriftservices atTw itter O n the job Twitter Futures Between classes, Tweeps start honing their Twitter Futures skills on the job.
- 25. 25 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action (cont.) Building and deploying Twitter services Thriftservices atTw itter ScalaEssentials Twitter Futures We introduce related concepts, e.g., nomads “en passant”. O n the job
- 26. 26 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action (cont.) Building and deploying Twitter services Thriftservices atTw itter ScalaEssentials Tw itterFutures Twitter Futures At some point, our students are ready to do a deep dive. E.g., what are some pitfalls one needs to be aware of? O n the job
- 27. 27 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Learning Twitter Futures in Action (cont.) Building and deploying Twitter services Thriftservices atTw itter ScalaEssentials Tw itterFutures Scala Collections M onads, functions,and friends in Scala Twitter Futures Tweeps keep practicing and learning more on the job. Once they are comfortable with Futures, we use it as a building block for higher- level concepts, e.g., nomads. O n the job ... Rinse and repeat.
- 28. Course Design for Accelerated Learning 28 This is Accelerated Learning
- 29. 29 Course Design for Accelerated Learning Let’s close with a few takeaways: #1. Learning is hard, so mindset matters. You know it but how about your students? Educate them on the growth mindset. (People forget. You might need to do it once than once.) Manage their expectations. #2. Start your class with the why using storytelling. It is a powerful technique to engage with your students, enabling them to learn broadly first. Inquire their mind: converse, don’t lecture. Your students should speak as much as you do. #3. Then follow up on the how with pacing and interleaving. Don’t cram and don’t specialize too much. They’ll forget. Intead, spread it out and mix it up to boost long- term learning.
- 30. 30 Course Design for Accelerated Learning A few references I keep going back to: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (2007) The Astonishing Power of Storytelling: Leading, Teaching, and Transforming in a New Way by Robert Garmston (2018) Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning by Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain (2019)
- 31. Course Design for Accelerated Learning Thank you