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Silence is Good for Your Brain

CLO Magazine

It’s stressless, calming, and it’s moments like these, writer Daniel Gross said in a July 2016 Nautilus article, that are actually good for the brain. Silence can create new brain cells. Silence forces the brain to create its owns “sounds.” That’s your brain retrieving a memory. Silence can be nourishing.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | February 26, 2020

Mike Taylor

This is still true of older versions of PowerPoint 2016 and earlier) Microsoft has made this much less of an issue with Cloud Fonts. Now there are about 700 “safe” options. Learn more and download a guide from the amazing Julie Terberg. . A few other things just because I can. Tools, Tips & Resources.

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Virtual reality for pain management

KnowledgeOne

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of healthy patients using VR while exposed to a painful stimulus (thermal foot pain simulator) demonstrated a more than 50% reduction in pain-related brain activity in 5 brain areas (Hoffman et al., ’ This causes the representation of the body in the brain to change. .’

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Desirable difficulties during the learning process

Matrix

Instructors try to make it fun with upbeat music and sometimes even dance moves but ultimately, if it doesn’t burn, it’s not efficient. Recent studies show that this is also true for our smartest muscle – the brain. At the 2016 APS Annual Convention in Chicago, APS James McKeen Cattell Fellows Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert A.

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Create Love in the Classroom

Learning Rebels

(Originally created for Litmos blog 8/2016). Because of this, trainers focus on having people hop around on one foot, and playing musical chairs to help lengthen participants attention span. Have you ever been in front of a group of training “captives”? They just aren’t feeling the love in the classroom? Absolutely.

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Don’t Try to Do So Many Things At Once

CLO Magazine

Research says the brain simply can’t do that, Kerns said. If only for a few seconds each, employees are responding to any number of alerts, from in-office communications apps to answering emails while listening to music, to processing the ping from a new message coming in on their cellphone.

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Welcome OpenSesame's Intern Class of 2015

OpenSesame

Being creative is my jam, and this summer I’d like to broaden the left-side of my brain as well. For fun, I spend my free time skateboarding, playing and observing strategic games, reading, listening to music, and learning music theory. Outside from work, I enjoy running, hiking, and any combination of music and the outdoors.

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