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Billions and Billions – Reshaping our Brains with Numbers

Learningtogo

Billions and Billions – Reshaping our Brains with Numbers by Margie Meacham A number is a number is a number? In an election year, the news is covered with poll results, which can sound completely different if “a majority” thinks one way, versus “51%.“ Two – I was a very lucky person with something special going on inside my brain.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?” Why don’t we hear that?

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world. The brain is still a gigantic mystery.

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world. The brain is still a gigantic mystery.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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This is Your Brain on eLearning/Online Learning

TOPYX LMS

eLearning, also known as online learning, isn’t just good for a company’s bottom line; it is also excellent for the human brain. Researchers are daily discovering more about how online learning affects a person mentally, and the results are amazing. This is Your Brain on eLearning/Online Learning. If so, you are not alone.

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Coping with information

Clark Quinn

Dawson frames elements in terms of how our brain works, which makes sense. I’ve been, and remain, a fan of Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Management ( PKM ). He grounds much of his arguments in the natural ways our brains work, which I also am a fan of. He was perfectly coherent then and is again here.

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