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3 Brain science insights about adult learning

Matrix

A long long time ago people believed that the Sun orbits the Earth. Not so long ago people believed that we only use around 10% of our brain capacity and that once a neuron dies, the brain loses it forever. And neuroscience placed the 10% usage of the brain right next to the other erroneous beliefs. We have to learn them.

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Content That Lives Within a Story Lasts Forever - Tip #118

Vignettes Learning

Read: Weaving Stories and Factual Content for Seamless Lessons While a story per se is a powerful instructional tool, its power to move the listener emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally largely depends on how the storyteller narrates it. What if the sun don’t come out for one month, how would it change your life?”

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How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives - Tip #162

Vignettes Learning

According to Dr. Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. The need to refocus learning objectives based on the needs of learners becomes apparent.

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Free L&D webinars for March 2021

Limestone Learning

It’s worth it to feel the sun and have that sense of new growth that comes with spring. If you feel sunny and ready to learn something new, why not sign up for one of the free webinars being offered this month? You’ll learn how to: Use Quick Start Projects for creating visually appealing elearning courses.

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Letting Go of the Need to Know Everything: Use Context Setting Learning Objectives

Vignettes Learning

According to Dr. Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. The overload problem manifests in elearning, classroom training and other forms of learning.

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Microlearning That Kicks Learners Into Thinking and Acting - Tip #202

Vignettes Learning

Etching Lessons Through Glass and Sun This magnifying glass experiment is perhaps one of the first scientific activities that we all remember having participated in as kids. It was fun and it stuck in their brain. And the best part is that most of us will find it easy to remember the lesson behind the experiment as well.