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Friday Finds — Cognitive Bias, Emotional Intelligence, Online Slide Sharing

Mike Taylor

What I’m Listening To: The Wallows is another discovery that I’ve made courtesy of my “official music consultant” (my daughter) Last Week’s Most Clicked: Using Images in Visual Design News & Notes Cognitive Bias Cheatsheet Our brains use cognitive biases as a way to save energy and cognitive resources.

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TMI! Cognitive Overload and Learning

Learningtogo

This is an example of what we call “cognitive overload.”. Cognitive Load Theory was introduced by John Sweller to explain why people have so much more difficulty learning complex content. Aerospace companies, for example, consider cognitive load when they design airplane and spaceship control panels.

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The ‘late adopter’ strategy

Clark Quinn

I remember the hype over Second Life, and recognizing that the core elements were 3D and social. Yet, what we saw were slide presentations in a virtual world. I’ve suggested before that you can infer the properties of new technologies, in many cases, by considering their cognitive affordances. Which was nonsensical.

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L and D Roundup: April 2024

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Read on for information about last month’s Women of Learning and Development Conference, a recent study about how users view slides, and supporting autistic learners. Cognitive Load, Student Attention, and PowerPoint Presentations Do you ever wonder how much of your slides learners are actually reading?

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L&D Roundup: April 2024

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Read on for information about last month’s Women of Learning and Development Conference, a recent study about how users view slides, and supporting autistic learners. Cognitive Load, Student Attention, and PowerPoint Presentations Do you ever wonder how much of your slides learners are actually reading?

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2024 Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

In particular, their cognitive affordances, what they do that you can’t do in other ways. With an affordance perspective, you can see that Second Life was about social and immersive 3D (at any scale). It had enough cognitive and technological overhead that if you didn’t inherently need those two things, there were better ways.

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2024 Learning and Development Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

In particular, their cognitive affordances, what they do that you can’t do in other ways. With an affordance perspective, you can see that Second Life was about social and immersive 3D (at any scale). It had enough cognitive and technological overhead that if you didn’t inherently need those two things, there were better ways.

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