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How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills

Absorb LMS

.” According to the American Library Association, by 2020, information on the Internet will be doubling every 15 minutes. Consuming information without taking the time to reflect is bad for the development of critical thinking skills. Second, the act of putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) engages our brains.

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Hire the heart and train the brain

Litmos

Hire the heart and train the brain; this is an axiom that many of us have heard before. However, I am making the argument that "soft skills" should be renamed "Core Skills", in that without these skills you will not succeed in the workplace as we move beyond the industrial age to the information age. . Hire for attitude, train skill.

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

Studies published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that people who sit for the majority of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of a heart attack. As if dying weren’t motivation enough, research continues to indicate that physical activity improves brain health and ability to learn.

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

Studies published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that people who sit for the majority of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of a heart attack. As if dying weren’t motivation enough, research continues to indicate that physical activity improves brain health and ability to learn.

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Why I’m Getting Tired of All These Stories

Learningtogo

Stories have a powerful effect on the brain. Through the stimulation of oxytocin, they have the power to immerse us in another person’s experience, to the point that our brain cannot tell the difference between this imagined experience and one that has happened to us directly. Another great place to check out is Backyard Brains.

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Learning Research by Annie Murphy Paul: Distributed Practice, Repetition and More

Knowledge Guru

Re-reading material, highlighting and underlining key points were all deemed “ineffective” learning tactics by the research, showing little value beyond simply reading the text. Murphy Paul notes that “the learning strategies with the most evidence to support them aren’t well known outside the psych lab.”

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Information Radar

Tony Karrer

For many of the roles and projects you will be involved in, part of what you need to be able to do is to put yourself in a continuous learning mode. You need information radar that continuously scans for new, quality information that you should be aware of. Information Addiction Let me start this topic with a word of caution.

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