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Attention is underrated

Clark Quinn

Attention is a complex phenomena. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn.

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Attention is underrated

Upside Learning

Attention is a complex phenomenon. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn.

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Understanding How We Learn: Video vs. Text

fewStones

So, when you need to remember, your brain can flip through these mental pictures and bring back the information. Paying Attention Paying attention is focusing on what you want to see. ” Pictures and videos create vivid scenes that stick in our memory because they’re like mental snapshots.

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WEAVING A TALE – HOW STORYTELLING CAN ENHANCE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Learnnovators

Picture this scene in the 1980s. While the end goal of education is effective education; for us to reach that end goal, we need to be able to get through to the learner by engaging their senses and getting them to pay attention to the material. Now, imagine a movie that was not very high budget, but still you connected with.

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5 Ways to Bring Contextual Learning to Your Association

Association eLearning

Are we talking about a car in an action movie, a firework, or some leftovers that were microwaved for too long? That introduction should provide all of the essential information and, ideally, grab people’s attention. Context is all about seeing how pieces fit into the big picture. Then it exploded. Why did it blow up?

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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Retold for instructional designers on focusing on the big picture and business impact rather than getting lost in the details of “order taking” for developing courses. Be detail oriented, craft mental movies. Support attention. Ask SMEs for real examples. Reimagine classic stories and retell them. Start with a story.

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Grab Their Attention!

SmartBuilder

You’ve anticipated this movie for quite awhile. When you’re spending time in front of a movie screen, you deserve to be intrigued, mystified, frightened, made to laugh, or … engaged and drawn in, in some way. Here are some ideas: Grab their attention with a story, humor or drama. and are more likely to pay attention.