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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Weber also points out how effectively additional techniques demonstrated in the movie – like music, movement, and humor – open the mind to learning. I’ll be seeing it again!

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Meet the team: Delight

Rustici Software

Kyle Patmor – Head Solution Seeker (aka Director of Client Integrations and Support). A big music and movie buff, he’s the resident Rustici movie, music and television critic and updates Slack with his latest reviews. “I Let’s meet the team! It’s like a Swiss Army knife for content.”.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.

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How to Combat the “Hey Look! A Squirrel!” Syndrome

Jigsaw Interactive

We all see students in television shows and movies sitting in neat little rows, listening attentively to the teacher, and answering questions. But somehow, the directors always fail to capture the huge distractions teachers deal with on a daily basis. Distracted learning isn’t effective.

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#TwistedTropes 25. Schindler's shopping list

Learning with e's

When Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg acquired the film rights, he was forced to use the more anodyne title Schindler's List. This was because the Ark suffix had already been claimed by Noah , or more likely, by his publicist.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

It conjures memories of terrible 90s thriller movies featuring Sandra Bullock in the prime of her career. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music. By the way, “Surfing the Net” is a great phrase that fell by the wayside far too early.