{"id":6996,"date":"2012-02-24T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2012-01-23T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T01:23:41","slug":"friday-math-movie-how-to-make-choosing-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-how-to-make-choosing-easier-6996","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: How to make choosing easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheena Iyengar gets us to think about the choices we make every day.<\/p>\n<p>We not only have information overload but choice overload as well. How to cope with so many consumer, time and life choices?<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's book <i>Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking<\/i>. This gives you a good insight into the process of choice. We kid ourselves when we say we are giving rational thought to our big decisions.<\/p>\n<p>It also reminds me of the mantra of good design: have only as many buttons as you actually need. Think iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>There are good lessons here for curriculum planning (and lesson planning) - categorize things; make it concrete;  and less is certainly more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1pq5jnM1C-A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sheen's blindness is rarely an issue in this thought-provoking talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-how-to-make-choosing-easier-6996#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-how-to-make-choosing-easier-6996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/01\/choosing.png\" alt=\"choosing\" title=\"choosing\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSheena Iyengar gives plenty of examples in this talk where we learn when it comes to choices, less is more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}