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Embrace Summertime for Continuous Learning

Learning Rebels

As the sun shines brighter and the days get longer, it’s the perfect time to infuse some summer vibes into our continuous learning routines. Bringing together people with different backgrounds and insights helps you see a new book in a different light or help you pick up the nuances of your favorite podcast.

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Friday Finds — Primitive Brain, ChatGPT Productivity, Steal Like an Artist

Mike Taylor

It’s been raining here for months and I’ve seen more sun in my week than they’ve seen in a long time. Last Week’s Most Clicked: Creating Better Video for Learning News & Notes Your Primitive Brain Doesn’t Want You to Break Bad Habits.

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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

For learning professionals to bloom through the boom, reexamining our root system and turning to the sun are needed. Technology and scientific advancements are also accelerating what we know about the brain and how it works. Turn to the sun Light illuminates what works and dispels what does not.

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Perchance to Dream – How sleep affects learning, memory and brain health

Learningtogo

While your body and your conscious mind appear to zone out during sleep, your brain is still very active, and doing some amazing things. This suggests that sleep may boost the immune system to help you heal or recover from illness. Stage 2 – Brain waves begin to slow down, except for occasional spikes in activity called spindles.

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Are You Ready for the Great Eclipse?

Learningtogo

A wonderful accident has placed our moon at just the right distance from the Earth so that when it gets between the Sun and the Earth we perceive the moon as completely blocking out the Sun. Total eclipses have been considered omens of great events since our earliest ancestors. I’ll write more of my experience after the event.

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Did AI Just Make a Great Leap-Forward with ChatGPT?

Learningtogo

Copernicus rewrote cosmology by claiming that the Earth rotates around the Sun. The fMRI revealed how the brain actually works, dispelling many learning “theories” that are now just historical anecdotes. Busy mom’s or brain-blocked creatives might benefit from “brainstorming” with the bot to generate ideas.

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3 Brain science insights about adult learning

Matrix

A long long time ago people believed that the Sun orbits the Earth. Not so long ago people believed that we only use around 10% of our brain capacity and that once a neuron dies, the brain loses it forever. And neuroscience placed the 10% usage of the brain right next to the other erroneous beliefs. We have to learn them.

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