Peak Experience Lab

Watch as I try to activate my own kid's curiosity about colonial history using 5 evidence-based curiosity tactics. It was so cool to get to see my own child's brain at work! Spoiler alert - English colonists' underwear was a huge lightning rod for curiosity. Maybe more than I thought. So yay for underwear! But also I tried to contextualize the "fun facts" by framing within deeper context - cultural relativism. What one culture thinks is "normal" can be weird or even disgusting to another.

Related - I've been experimenting with video training - skill building- for Education Staff - training that is NOT watching a pre-recorded zoom meeting (those can be soooo boring). But we need more examples for educators that show teaching in action and that can be repeated each time we hire new people. Training that breaks down technique in an accessible and even entertaining way. Often, educators' primary training is following other educators. Not without merit, but this method alone often leads to parroting of bad habits with little opportunity to really dissect or analyze technique.

Let me know what you think. This one did get a bit long (38 min) but I decided I needed to just get it out there in the world rather than continually reinvent it.

Can I activate CURIOSITY about HISTORY in my own kid using these 5 tactics? [History Teaching Demo] Kids can get bored learning history. To turn boredom into curiosity, I learned these 5 tactics - as well as the basic mechanics of how curiosity works. And u...