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Your Brain on Change

Learningtogo

Your Brain on Change. The first thing we need to understand about the human brain is that it evolved to keep us safe in a dangerous world, where our ancestors met deadly threats at every turn. For those of us who are responsible for change management, we need to consider how the brain responds to change. by Margie Meacham.

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Break Out the Crayons – Your Brain Needs to Color!

Learningtogo

There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill. This entailed filling in the black and white illustrations in the book with any colors you wanted.

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Announcing the Brain Matters Coloring Book

Learningtogo

I’m so excited about my new book, The Brain Matters Coloring Book ! There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill.

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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Microlearning is None of These Things!

Upside Learning

One of them is not our decreasing attention span, purportedly now down below that of a goldfish; that’s a robustly debunked myth!) Learning, in our brains, is really the strengthening of neural connections. Our thinking is based upon patterns of activation across the myriad of neurons that constitute our brain.

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Classic Learning Research in Practice – Semiotics of Graphics – Visual Attention

Adobe Captivate

When keeping the Learners Attention , the visual memory is of uttermost importance as 60% of the brain is involved in vision. Your Iconic Brain Receives input from +6.000.000 receptors. As an instructional designer you can speedup and strengthen the uptake of visual information by using: Pre Attentive Attributes.