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Do We Learn Differently Now?

Upside Learning

It’s only a matter of time before we accept technology based artificial implants as being a natural way to enhance our biologically limited perception and cognition. However efficient and adopted in a variety of ways, these technologies supplanted human physical capabilities, and not the perception-cognition complex itself.

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Cognitive Tunnelling: How to Achieve Focus Through Stories

Vignettes Learning

In worst-case scenarios, failure of attention can lead to death as was the case of Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Cognitive Tunneling When things are automated, our brains don’t have to monitor our environment. Cognitive tunneling then is misplaced focus. But is there a way to fix this?

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CSU Resources

Kapp Notes

Cognition and Instruction , 5(4), 289-309. Cognitive and affective process analyses (pp. 2009) Repeated testing improves long-term retention relative to repeated study: a randomized controlled trial. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Malone, T.W., & Lepper, M.R. Snow & M.

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

Among other things, this field of knowledge has led to discoveries that have had a significant impact on our understanding and approach to human cognition and learning. As fundamentally social beings, humans define and develop themselves through their relationships with others, and this aspect cannot be overlooked when it comes to learning.

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Engagement: A Critical Element in Learning and Gamification

Kapp Notes

(Gibson, 2009). Merrill (2009. Mode 1: Cognitive interactivity or interpretative participation. 2009) First principles of instruction. Sitzmann (2011) found individuals learned more, relative to a comparison group, when simulation games actively, rather than passively, conveyed course material. References: Gibson, J.T.,

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities

Learning Visions

Thursday, May 24, 2007 Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities Ive just read Richard Nantels post The Ultimate Pretest in which he talks about his interest in brain plasticity. Is cognitive ability plastic? And what is cognitive ability, really? Scientists are finding ways to change the brain through intellectual exercises.

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Designing to Persuade: 5 Elements of Messages that Stick

Mike Taylor

According to Miller (1956), our cognitive capacity for processing information is limited, suggesting that a clear, concise message is more likely to be retained and understood. Mayer’s (2009) Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning suggests that people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone. Random House.