The Amplio Insights Podcast Series

The Pickup Sticks Model of Creating Curriculum

Al Shalloway Season 1 Episode 4

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The order in which you present new concepts is important. People can only learn what they already almost know. Yet very often what they need to know is like the stick buried underneath a pile of things they don’t know. But at the top, is something they already almost know. The metaphor of how you take sticks from a pile can be used to determine the order in which you convey concepts to people.