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How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills

Absorb LMS

Keeping and contributing regularly to a personal learning journal can be an effective way to encourage reflection and develop critical thinking skills. Second, the act of putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) engages our brains. Fourth, writing things down in a journal also allows us to ‘clear our minds.’

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7 Things to Know About Learning and the Brain

SkyPrep

Researchers are continually discovering new evidence about learning and the brain that can help us with the development of more effective learning and teaching practices. Keep reading for a compilation of the most important discoveries scientists have made about learning and the brain, over the last little while.

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This Is Your Learner’s Brain on Coffee

Learningtogo

Should we be pumping our learners with the beverage in order to maximize brain performance and memory, or weaning them off it to support long-term health? How Caffeine Works in the Brain. Technically, it’s not really coffee itself that is the issue; it’s the caffeine that the drink delivers to our brains.

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Learning Myths vs Science/ Approaches to Creating Effective Learning

TechSmith Camtasia

It all started when people realized that philosophers, linguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists all had valuable knowledge of the human brain but were just not sharing it with each other. The old model of the brain was that we’re these logical, reasoning beings. It undermines our learning effectiveness and limits us.

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Your Brain: The Ultimate Electronic Performance Support System

Dashe & Thomson

I was inclined to think that though the amount of information available to me might be increasing, the net effect was ultimately just a shallower understanding of things, with no real expertise. Given that the human brain appears to be adopting the strategy, according to Science , it would seem we’ve got the right idea.

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Video games as Good Teachers

Kapp Notes

Learning is most effective when the learner has an achievable, well-defined goal. Games induce players to create their own worlds, to participate in social activities, to form effective teams, to reason and to save lives [51]. It seems that teenage brains are open to lasting physical changes. “In It is called brain plasticity.

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Music aids learning, but not unconditionally

Mitch Moldofsky

- Willy Shakespeare A lot of ink has been spilled over the question of what effect music has on the brain. But three recent studies on the effects of music on learning should also have us tapping our collective toes. But another question the authors don't ask is, what is it about the classical music that is having this effect?

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