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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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Note-taking: Keyboard or Pen? The Verdict of Science!

KnowledgeOne

Between keyboard and pen note-taking, which method is the most effective for learning? Before the advent of the intelligent digital pen, this question would not have been of any interest to a majority of young learners – and many not so young – for whom the laptop is an essential working tool. ” As a bonus: good for the brain!

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Procrastination and Creativity

Mitch Moldofsky

Over at the Learndash blog , blogger Laura Lynch pens a very useful guide to helping learners in an online course avoid procrastination, a predictor of learner churn. Enter the Creativity Research Journal, whose 2010 study by J.R. Creativity Re- search Journal, 22, 68–73. Cohen and J.R. Ferrari (no relation to J.R.R.

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Analogous Research: How Connecting with Company Peers Can Increase Creativity

Maestro

Paper and pen or whiteboard and marker, take it from here. Think of it like journaling. Analogous learning is a form of divergent thinking, so it makes sense to give your brain a break before moving into convergent thinking. In the circle on the left, jot down the biggest challenges facing your team.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge Day 13: Back to School

Learning Rebels

All the colors make me want to buy a dozen journals. Then all the new types of markers, and pens – displayed like flowers in a flower market, waiting to be plucked! See previous post: Day 12: World Brain Day. The colors! Dare I feed my addiction with All THE POST-IT’s? Different shapes, colors and designs.

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Let’s Focus a Little Better

CLO Magazine

If anything, the world will only get noisier with more distractions, and University of California at Irvine digital distraction expert Gloria Mark told The Wall Street Journal that distractions take about 23 minutes to regroup from in order to get back on task. Do a brain dump that is. But what to do? Just get it all out.

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4 Ways to Unplug and Recharge This Holiday Season

KnowledgeCity

She surmises that the holidays overtax the part of the brain that is responsible for “managing time, being attentive, switching focus, planning, and organizing, and remembering details.”. A New England Journal of Medicine study looked at body weight increases during the holidays in the U.S., It’s fine to treat yourself in moderation.