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Keeping Your Learners’ Attention: How Our Brain Decides What to Focus On

Learnkit

Candy Crush is calling our name… In John Medina’s book, Brain Rules , we learn how the brain works. This blog will explore each component and evaluate how incorporating each theory can benefit a learner’s elearning experience. May not have expected a reference to Candy Crush at the start of the article, did you?

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8 Must-Read Neurolearning™ Books

eLearningMind

Instead, Neurolearning is a combination of learning theory and neuroscience; a complicated study of how the brain (and the nervous system) works and reacts to stimuli and situations. Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business in the 21st Century; Cathy N.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). References Bennett, S., and Kervin, L. New York, NY: W. 2008) Web 2.0

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). References Bennett, S., and Kervin, L. New York, NY: W. 2008) Web 2.0

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Have You Had Your Daydream Today?

Obsidian Learning

When thinking diffusively our brains begin to make important connections between the new material or problem and other ideas from our experience. References: Anderson, Andrea, “Multitasking by Brainwave”, Scientific American: Scientific American, a division of Nature America, Inc., Your creativity and learning will benefit!

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Bring the Science of Learning into Your Employee Training

eLearningMind

How our brains like to learn Our brains crave repetition and patterns, like a catchy melody that gets stuck in your head, but with a bit of the unexpected thrown in to wake us up to alternatives we haven’t considered. Story-based learning Our brains also love stories, which are a great conduit for emotional connections.

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8 Proven Tips for Optimal Learning

KnowledgeOne

“In 2005, Sergent, Baillet and Dehaene revealed the brain mechanisms involved in the attentional blink, a phenomenon — comparable to the blink of an eye — of temporary, unconscious and repetitive interruption of our attention. seconds for the brain to register and manipulate the sensory information needed to complete each task.”