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Friday Find Finds — Reduce PowerPoint Overload, Merging Modalities, Designing for Cognitive Bias

Mike Taylor

Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil. Canadian Elearning Conference – June 16-17 Elearn Success Series: The EdTech Session – July 20 DevLearn – October 24-28. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Pixelied is an online graphics creation suite along the lines of Canva. Help me improve.

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Social Networking, Informal Learning, Twitter, & Gaming

Big Dog, Little Dog

We are all very familiar with social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. KM Asia: keynote on social computing - Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge. Immersive Learning Simulations - DevLearn ILS slides. tags: devlearn elearning ).

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Designing Backward and Forward

Clark Quinn

At the recent DevLearn, several of us gathered together in a Junto to talk about issues we felt were becoming important for our field. It naturally includes design that still reflects my view about activity-centered learning (which I’m increasingly convinced is grounded in cognitive research).

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Friday Finds

Mike Taylor

Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later. Cognitive load theory aims to explain how the information processing load induced by learning tasks can affect students’ ability to process new information and to construct knowledge in long-term memory. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Help me improve.

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Friday Finds — 

Mike Taylor

A study published in Scientific Reports suggests that coffee has beneficial effects on cognitive function, and it may do this by reorganizing brain functional connectivity. DevLearn (October 24-28) – I’m doing two pre-conference workshops this year! Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Coffee Enhances Neurocognitive Function.

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Friday Find Finds — Tools for Learning, Understanding Forgetting, Memorable Feedback

Mike Taylor

Memorable Feedback: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology in Selective Attention. DevLearn – October 24-28. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. It is powerful, inevitable and adaptive. Sarah Cottingham reminds us that the best thing we can do is understand it and work with it. Filed under: No duh.) Help me improve.

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Friday Find Finds — Retrieval Practice, Emotion & Learning, Microlearning Research

Mike Taylor

Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Elearn Success Series: The EdTech Session – July 20 DevLearn – October 24-28. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Influences of Emotion on Learning & Memory.