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Friday Finds — Animations & Learning, Attention Span, Learning Sciences

Mike Taylor

Last Week’s Most Clicked Do more with Google Docs News & Notes People Pay Attention Better Today Than 30 Years Ago — Really! Introduction to Learning Sciences” explores how the brain learns, focusing on encoding, consolidating, and retrieving information. I’m really dating myself here, aren’t I? Don’t like it?

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Understanding How We Learn: Video vs. Text

fewStones

How Our Brains Process Information Remembering Things Remembering things is making mental notes in your brain. When you learn something, your brain takes snapshots using your senses, such as seeing, hearing, or feeling. Paying Attention Paying attention is focusing on what you want to see. Let’s get started!

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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Why don’t we just give learners a book and command them to read and learn? Brains switch off when we see a slide full of bullet points. Our brains are active for language processing but nothing else. When we hear stories, our brains light up all over–we experience a story as if we were part of it.

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The Neuroscience of Instagram

eLearningMind

But as it turns out, Instagram’s surge and unprecedented success in a sea of failed social media networks (we’re looking at you, Google+) may be more linked to the way the brain works than those #nofilter pictures shared. The rapid pace of a visually stimulating medium such as Instagram multiplies the effect of reward in the brain.

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Artificial Intelligence in Talent Development

Learningtogo

This week on Train Like You Listen , Brian talks with Margie Meacham of learningtogo.info, who digs into the myths and realities of AI and begins to paint a picture of what the intersection between AI and learning might be. And in the book I go into more detail because the people actually working in the field are debating how to define it.

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Designing to Persuade: 5 Elements of Messages that Stick

Mike Taylor

But if you want to stand out from the crowd and make your voice heard, you need to be able to craft persuasive messages that will get people’s attention and move them to think or do things in a new way. Heath & Heath (2007) in their book “Made to Stick,” emphasize the importance of concrete and actionable CTAs.

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40+ Instructional Design and eLearning Books

Experiencing eLearning

If your New Year’s Resolution is to read more books, you’ve found the right post. This is a compilation and update of my previous book list and review posts. Design For How People Learn by Julie Dirksen is one of my favorite books in the field. Read my full review about this practical book.