1. AVOID THE
ZOMBIE ZONE:
Putting The Learning Research
To Work In Your Conference

3. Try to inject info
into attendees heads
through lectures
and panels

4. Leave shuffling, brain dead,
passively consuming info

5. Learning - a biological process in

6. Just receiving information does
not lead to learning or change

7. Confront Gothic elements of
notmost conferences or change
lead to learning education

8. Confront Gothic elements of
notmost conferences or change
lead to learning education
Lecture Lunacy – “sit-n-get”

9. Diagnose, Rally Resistance
Produce Inoculation,
Develop Antidote

11. Walking Dead

12. Symptoms That
Your Conference
Is Creating
The Walking Dead

13. Leaders barricade themselves
in outdated mythical beliefs
of education: lecture, panel

14. Leaders resort to familiar,
comfortable refuge, fortified
spaces and status quo.

15. Leaders deny
world is undergoing
global change &
education being
transformed &
disrupted!

16. Leaders try to revive past
with zombified processes to
select topics & speakers.
They
become
Zombies
themselves.

17. Attendees are zombie
learners, never thinking
or actively participating.

18. Intellectual inquiry,
pair or threesome
discussions, & audience
participation, are seen as
hallucinatory absurdities.

19. Lectures, panels create
living dead as the only
One thinking is
speaker.

20. Zombie hordes shuffle
from session to session as
if they are sleep walking.

21. Conference has a police
controlled atmosphere
where attendees not in
control of own learning.

22. Focus on experts &
industry expertise as
speakers instead of
attendees as learners.

23. Rarely do leaders
choose speakers that
have understanding of
learning & facilitation.

24. If your conference has
any of these symptoms
you are
creating
the walking
dead!

25. Survivors of
Zombie
Apocalypse
appreciate that
the world has
changed!

26. Vital for conference organizers
to understand that old education
methods are dead!

27. Remember if you conference has
a zombie infection, you must act

28. An unnerving change has occurred

29. There has been death, which
confronts us with the fact
something we long held dear, is
not the same!

30. We can try to embrace good old
days but must realize they
created zombies.

31. Oh God! Do you see them?
This is where they grow them!

32. What the heck are they?
They’re us, that’s all.
Don’t let them become us!

33. What is the antidote of
Zombism? 1. Critical Thinking

34. 2. Deep Learning
not surface knowledge!

35. 3. Content uncovered
by learner not
content covered
by speaker!

36. 4. Evidence Based Education

37. 5.
Authentic
Learning
Not Mimicry

38. 6. Going beyond info giving &
assimilation to application.

39. 7. Solving problems by thinking
not defending outdated beliefs &
relying on memory!

40. • Darwin Bell
• Pink Sherbert
Photography
• Guillermio Salinas
• GeezerWheezer
• MacWagen
• West Midlands Police
• Faugel
• Abode Of Chaos
• Mugley
• KatieW
• Big Mike
• Sinjuani
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Chris Waldreck
Flood
Tony George
Quarlo
Ota
Bruno Piatta
Marcosc
Emily Barney
Fusky
Jagendorf
MarkLobo
Doviende
e_Monk
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WVS
JamesRDoe
TauZero
Jcaterals
MarcellDietl
Bass_nroll
Oskay
rVerse
Jkosanchez
JoshBromba
Joz
Arbyreed

41. • The Art of Changing The Brain: Enriching The Practice Of
Teaching By Exploring The Biology Of Learning by James E.
Zull
• Learner Centered Teaching by Terry Doyle
• Romero’s 1978 Dawn Of The Dead
• Siegels’ 1956 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
• Visible Learning & The Science Of How We Learn by John
Hattie & Greg Yates
• Zombies In The Academy: Edited by Andrew Whelan, Ruth
Walker and Christopher Moore