Alan B Siegel and Irene Etzkorn
Some disjointed thoughts/notes:
- Having empathy, striving for clarity, and distilling message can reduce distance between student and teacher, and save time!
- Simplicity gives students competitive advantage -- should be a student right (just as it should be a consumer right)
The problem with complexity…
- Credit card contracts, phone bills, medicine instructions, taxes
- No one cares, no one reads them.
Simplistic vs. Simplified: strive for the latter, not the former
- Understand what is essential and meaningful, opposed to what is not, then ruthlessly eliminate what isn’t.
- Simplicity allows students to understand and control what affects them → Student-centered learning.
Fight back against “learned helplessness”!
- When someone has several experiences of being confused, that person starts assuming they’ll never be able the understand any legal document, so why bother trying. → Quintessential problem in math class?!
Three Principles of Simplicity
- Empathize
- Distill
- Clarity
Distill: Boil down and customize what’s being offered to meet needs
Clarify: make the offering easier to understand, use, and benefit
Favorite Simplicity Case Studies:
Trader Joe’s: Increases revenue because items sell faster, easier to restock. Customers dig simplicity!
OXO: They are very lesson-inquiry-esque. Observing people in their homes to determine what products are most needed/useful
Target: CLearRX
NYC bureaucracy → 311
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