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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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Friday Find Finds — Return on Attention, RSS, Content Curation 101

Mike Taylor

He also shares how curation became a crucial business strategy for the 21st century and says “Some of the most impactful content experiences – great books, movies, and documentaries – result from a painstaking curation process…Great creations rest on curation.”. In short, making mistakes primes your brain for learning.

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7 Common Instructional Design Mistakes in E-Learning

Capytech

Information Overload. The human brain can process a limited amount of information at any one time. By providing too much information at once, you are not giving the learner time to get a proper understanding and then commit what they have learned to memory.

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Devlearn conference day one: an exhilarating day

Challenge to Learn

The brain filters information (to prevent information overload), in principle you forget the most information that you encounter, you need to reactivate the facts in order to really store them in your brain. John is the producer of many movies, the most famous ones are Titanic and Avatar.

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

There’s a lot of information coming at us. It used to be just newspapers where we got our news, then came radio, then TV, then Internet, then our brains exploded. I mentioned above there’s so much stuff coming at us we’re likely to experience a brain explosion. There’s also a ton of crap. Nick Leffler.

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Understanding Cognitive Load Theory Is Essential for Effective Corporate IT Training

IT Training Department Blog

The Challenge of Information Overload in Corporate IT Training Employees have a lot going on during their workday. However, one of the biggest challenges faced by both trainers and learners is information overload. Your brain would quickly become overloaded, leading to decreased retention and comprehension.

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Calling Stephen Potter…

Jay Cross

Do you get there if you watch a great movie? His claim — as far as I understand it — is that surfing the web outside of this literature-space not only alters our brain during that time but somehow unwires the hard wiring we have for stories, so that later on we are unable to re-enter that literature-space as easily. I believe so.