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Images matter

Jay Cross

In his keynote at Learning Technologies, Tony Buzan asked the audience to remember the first thing that popped into their heads when he said the word “Clinton.&# Nearly everyone flashed on a picture, not a bunch of words. That’s the way we humans are wired.

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Photographic memories

Jay Cross

Thinking a few decades out, I expect images are going to replace alphabets. Of course it’s better if the images move. Your brain has to go through a lot of computation to make out letters, assemble words, and understand the meaning of sentences and paragraphs. We weren’t born to do this symbol manipulation.

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What does a 21st century leader need to do?

Jay Cross

I often swipe images for blog posts from Bing or Google. Looking for images of leader, I was surprised when all that came up were militarist images of leaders as exalted commanders. So forget those pictures and image a network of equals. No citizen leaders here!

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Best camera I’ve ever owned

Jay Cross

Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3-inch LCD. New 10-megapixel High Sensitivity System; DIGIC 4 Image Processor. Improved low-light image performance, plus a Low Light scene mode for ISO settings up to 12,800. optical zoom with Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer. Canon PowerShot S90. I never use the flash.)

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Gazing at Nature Improves Performance

Jay Cross

After five minutes the subjects were given a 40-second break, and an image of a rooftop surrounded by tall buildings appeared on their screens. Half the subjects saw a plain concrete roof; the others saw a roof covered with a green, flowering meadow.

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Kevin Wheeler: How Gen Y Learns

Jay Cross

And because of them book-based learning, lectures, stand-up teaching, grades, honor rolls, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20thcentury will fade away faster than we image." ." "This generation is the one that will redefine learning. " See on newsle.com. Just Jay'

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Grokking Aha!

Jay Cross

Sample images from Aha! 75 Ways to Work Smarter. Buy it now.