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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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Keeping Your Learners’ Attention: How Our Brain Decides What to Focus On

Learnkit

Candy Crush is calling our name… In John Medina’s book, Brain Rules , we learn how the brain works. This blog will explore each component and evaluate how incorporating each theory can benefit a learner’s elearning experience. Multitasking doesn’t exist. But the reality is, the brain cannot multitask.

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8 Must-Read Neurolearning™ Books

eLearningMind

Instead, Neurolearning is a combination of learning theory and neuroscience; a complicated study of how the brain (and the nervous system) works and reacts to stimuli and situations. Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business in the 21st Century; Cathy N.

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

One of the more controversial theories of the digital age is the claim that technology is changing (or rewiring) our brains (Greenfield, 2009) whilst some also claim that prolonged use of the Web is detrimental to human intellectual development (Carr, 2010). 2010) The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

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Classic Learning Research in Practice – Sensory Channels – Keep the Learners Attention

Adobe Captivate

Once the learner feels connected , we need to maintain his attention and avoid multitasking. Sensory input remains useless until it is processed by the brain where it becomes perception. It is your brain that sees and hears. Perception starts at the sensory input, in the bottom-up processing approach (Gibson’s Theory).

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Audiolearning: a media that makes noise

Coorpacademy

The multiplication of media allows us to solicit all of our senses and therefore to make our brain work! No scientific theory corroborates the popular misconception that everyone is rather “visual” or “auditory”. Audiobooks are also flourishing and can be a real audio pleasure, even on “corporate” subjects!

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Instructional Design, Learning, Multitasking, & Camtasia for Mac

Big Dog, Little Dog

Love-Hate Theory, Learner Motivation, Connectivism and Other Such Thoughts. Thoughts on the fundamental theories all of us IDs start out our ID career armed with: Learners learn best when they are able to align the new knowledge with knowledge from the past. Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off - Wired.