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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In particular, Weber talks about the power of human interaction in teaching (aka social learning): Interpersonal intelligence engages others best in curious, equitable, and caring situations.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics. Properly d.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics. Properly d.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

by Paul on April 13, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning Last week my girlfriend and I ate dinner at Darbar Indian Grill in Uptown Minneapolis with another couple (good food, but overpriced), and we got on the topic of surfing the net on the job. Properly d.

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

It might sound familiar for your favorite novel or the last movie you saw, but what does this mean for your training materials? Instead, you can adopt the key steps from the hero’s journey and blend them with well-known training models to create a story that is as engaging as it is effective. The Reason Strategic Storytelling Works.

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use the Hero’s Journey for Training

eLearningMind

Instead, you can adopt the key steps from the hero’s journey and blend them with well-known training models to create a story that is as engaging as it is effective. Case Study: Lord of the Rings as Learning Theory. Throughout the first book (or movie, if you didn’t make it through J.R.R. Conclusion.

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Unravelling The Relevance Of Social Cognitive Theory in Online Learning

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Although, the situation is quite embarrassing but this proves an important point that we humans many times prefer to learn unfamiliar tasks based on ‘observation’. This leads us to the theory by psychologist Albert Bandura known as the ‘Social Cognitive Theory’. What is Social Cognitive Theory? Observational Learning.

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