Lessons from My Career as an Educator
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Three concrete practices: open each page with what’s in it for me because motivation predicts learning and people stop reading without that, stop catering to supposed visual/auditory preferences because learning styles are a myth, and design content in small pieces using chunking (Miller’s 7±2 reduced toward about 4–5); do discrete step-by-step procedures, keep pages short, label purpose and scope, and avoid tangents and conditionals so readers actually accomplish tasks.
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