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The Neurobiology of Why Your Learner’s Brain Responds to Great Storytelling

Maestro

When you think about the power of storytelling, your first thought might be of the movies—even as Hollywood continues to churn out stories that follow familiar arcs we’ve seen time and again, we keep showing up and finding ourselves drawn in, happily paying to see it play out in different forms on the big screen. And now you’re hooked.

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What Doesn’t Belong In Your XR Training Content

Roundtable Learning

Excessive Voice-overs Don’t sabotage the learning process with too many distracting voiceovers. We all have that friend who likes to talk during movies. Learning the hard way has its perks. If you’ve ever touched a hot stovetop, we’ll bet your brain remembered not to make the same mistake.

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Activate the Braincells Through the Art of Storytelling

Magic EdTech

What comes to your mind when you hear words “movie”, “novel”, “theater” or an “advertisement”? All of us enjoy a good story, whether it’s a novel, a movie, a drama, an advertisement or something our friends/teachers/family members narrate to us. In fact, a story puts the whole brain to work.

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Managing the Self-Directed Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!” She plugs a jack directly into her brain and downloads the skills. Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine….

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Managing the Self-Directed Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!” She plugs a jack directly into her brain and downloads the skills. Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine….

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Virtual Reality Makes Our Stories Even More Real - Tip #144

Vignettes Learning

The medium, in a sense, tricks the brain into thinking it is experiencing many different senses making it possible for users to experience places or something that they might not otherwise experience. Why does VR promise to impact our lives as uniquely as other mediums such as literature, radio, television, the movies, and the internet?

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WHY IT’S TIME TO UPDATE ELEARNING WITH ADAPTIVE LEARNING AND PERSONALIZATION

PDG

It’s a Teaching Machine and it will dramatically change the way people learn in the future.” – Doc Brown could have said in the opening scene in the movie, Back to the Future. . You do not need a DeLorean with a flux capacitor to see how far Learning has come in the last seventy years. by Amy Ransom. Great Scott, Marty!