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Friday Finds —Cognitive Load, Slow Ideas, Plain Language

Mike Taylor

So I’ll be thinking cool thoughts, soaking up some sun and cheering like crazy for all the Ohio All-American girls. Class Central has curated a list of the top online neuroscience courses, including beginner and advanced levels, courses relating neuroscience to learning and behavior, and courses exploring brain injury and pathologies.

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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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You can stimulate curiosity for self directed learning

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

This morning I cycled in the sun to a school for higher eduction to a look back at a fun and successful project. Within the SPOC, on the Curatr platform, sources like short video clips or cartoons were shared as conversation starters on topics such as classroom atmosphere, structure, variety in lessons and attention to individual students.

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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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Free learning & development webinars for July 2023

Limestone Learning

With the summer sun shining brightly, we’re all thinking… how can we make the most of it before it goes away? They often are left-brain, analytics types who lack the right-brain emotional intelligence DNA. “ Mountains, landscape, view ” by Krzysztof Jaracz is licensed by pixabay. In some ways, it’s not their fault.

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2022 learning and elearning trends

KnowledgeOne

As such, putting in simplified terms and focusing on the higher education industry, the 2022 trends could be summarized as “nothing new under the sun,” but then again, there are always nuances to be made. So, anything new under the sun for 2022? Learning and Forgetting: New Perspectives on the Brain. Strategist.

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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. This is an example of what we dump during learning lessons. It needs time to digest.