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My brain is racist. Does that mean I am?

CLO Magazine

But what if we understood the moniker not as a scarlet letter of disgrace, but a brain default that we all share? The only way our brains know how: Recognize and respond. To wit, there are two primary reasons my brain defaults to racist thinking. The brain accomplishes this feat, in part, by recognizing (or not) the familiar.

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How to Mold Smarter Learners by Using Patterns

Vignettes Learning

Your morning routine is an excellent example of a pattern. A pattern is a repeated, recurrent behavior of a group or individual. But patterns are not limited to the things we do. There are also the patterns that we see around us and patterns we use to make sense of the world. Pareto Principle, Cause-Effect, Whys?

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

It’s the classic storyline pattern from all of your favorite childhood fairytales: Hero is introduced; hero encounters trials; hero rises triumphant. Professor of Literature and mythologist Joseph Campbell was the first to formally identify the archetypal protagonist’s pattern in his 1949 book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

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How To Be More Creative: 10 Activities to Try

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Most of us wouldn’t choose a job in a busy restaurant as a way to relax our brains, but it works for Sheldon. He has his “eureka moment” after dropping some dishes and noticing the pattern of the broken pieces on the floor. Our brains normally look for patterns to help make sense of the world. Play Music. Decorate a cake.

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Reduce the Weak Links in Your eLearning: Part 1

eLearning Brothers

Our brains are wired to analyze patterns, make predictions, and form links between different phenomena. One of these cognitive tricks our brains play is called the spacial contiguity principle, which states that we learn more effectively when related elements are grouped together, such as an image and its caption.

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Your friend: Artificial intelligence in corporate training

Docebo

That sounds all well and good, but if AI is a way to access human intelligence without a human, how does that impact those with jobs in the learning field? Picture your ice cream cone on a hot day – that’s your training program. Sounds like your new assistant, right? Not so scary, right?). This is a virtual coach.

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Science-based recommendations to design learning for a hybrid world

CLO Magazine

While learning patterns (how, when and where) have been changing incrementally over the years, only recently — with the onset of a global pandemic coupled with advances in education technology — could we experience the power of learning anywhere, anytime. The brain is built for lifelong learning. Let’s say you go to Paris on vacation.