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The Eyes Have It – How the Brain Uses Our Eyes to See the World

Learningtogo

As I look for practical applications of neuroscience, I sometimes stumble upon things we believe at some instinctual level that we can now say we “know” because of evidence uncovered in a living brain. As a learning professional, I’m also aware of the enormous amount of information that comes to the brain directly through our eyes.

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2013

OpenSesame

2013 is rapidly approaching and if you’re like the rest of the OpenSesame community, you’re busy evaluating your successes in 2012 and thinking about ways to be more effective in 2013. We’ve scoured the web for the top 100 tools available to help you do what you dream in 2013. You don’t have to go it alone. collaborate more?

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Through a child's eyes

Learning with e's

One of the most interesting reports I have read recently appeared in the February 2013 edition of The Psychologist. In an article entitled 'Learning from Learners', Rachel Wu (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, New York) discusses some recent findings on how infants learn. Richardson, D.

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The Top 14 eLearning Template Trends of 2014

eLearning Brothers

Out in mid-2013, this eLearning Game has since been updated in multiple authoring tools and was optimized for mobile in late 2014. As opposed to the popular Gizmo theme, which was the winner in 2013. Also, in 2014, we added the premium medical library, with high-resolution body images and medical environment photos.

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Deep learning

Learning with e's

"If you can imagine it, you can invent it" - unknown I recall Nicky Hockley''s keynote for the Reform Symposium 2013. It seems they have teamed up to investigate how the Search Engine giant''s massive server fleet and computational power can be harnessed to emulate a virtual human brain. Unported License.

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Joining the dots

Learning with e's

Gestaltists believe that the human brain is capable of perceiving whole forms even though only partial component parts may have been seen. 2013 - first published in 1935) Principles of Gestalt Psychology. Gestalt is German for pattern or shape, and provides a useful explanation for visual perception. Further reading Carlson, N.

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Doing and knowing

Learning with e's

2010) The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains. Ed: 2013) Knowmad Society. Photo by Steve Wheeler Doing and knowing by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Brabazon, T. 2007) The University of Google: Education in a (Post) Information Age. Aldershot: Ashgate.

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