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Break Out the Crayons – Your Brain Needs to Color!

Learningtogo

There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill. When you’re engaged in coloring, you are able to put your cerebral cortex on auto-pilot.

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Announcing the Brain Matters Coloring Book

Learningtogo

I’m so excited about my new book, The Brain Matters Coloring Book ! There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill.

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Microlearning is None of These Things!

Upside Learning

It’s about course bits On the other hand, courses are about developing new skills, and there are good reasons for breaking a course up into small bits spread over time. One of them is not our decreasing attention span, purportedly now down below that of a goldfish; that’s a robustly debunked myth!)

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Your leaders’ brains were not made for this moment

CLO Magazine

workplace environment is putting a strain on our brains and affecting our mental well-being. As the number of workers grappling with mental health issues continues to rise, learning and development leaders are facing a critical question: How and why are our employees struggling to cope? Take a look at the nature of work, for example.

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Five Teaching Strategies Backed Up by Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

Neuroscience has made remarkable advances in unravelling the mysteries of the human brain. As our understanding of how the brain functions expands, so does our ability to apply this knowledge to various fields, particularly education. Here are five teaching strategies backed by neuroscience that can enhance learning experiences.

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Classic Learning Research in Practice – Sensory Channels – Keep the Learners Attention

Adobe Captivate

Once the learner feels connected , we need to maintain his attention and avoid multitasking. Sensory input remains useless until it is processed by the brain where it becomes perception. It is your brain that sees and hears. As a learning professional it is important to get the full attention of the learner.

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The Science of Attention (And Why eLearning Professionals Should Care)

SHIFT eLearning

Paying attention is a task people take for granted; they rarely stop to think about the complex neurocognitive processes involved. However, it is an important topic for eLearning developers who are often so concerned about the superficial elements of their courses and neglect to learn how the brain works.

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