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The point of no return

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The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. The Theory When we learn something new, we alter the structure of our brains. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs Photo by Sid Mosdell on Flickr The point of no return by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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In two minds

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Visual and verbal information are processed in different ways along discrete pathways in the brain, and these are thought to create different mental representations. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License. Unported License. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Merizow Transformative Learning 28.

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Words in mind

Learning with e's

To retrieve an item from long term memory, the brain traverses a large network of information. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Piaget Cognitive Stages of Development Photo from Wikimedia Commons Words in mind by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.