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The Pursuit of Happiness Begins in the Brain

Learningtogo

As learning professionals, we must care about happiness, because a happy brain is more receptive to learning and changing behavior. An unhappy brain goes into “ fight or flight ” mode, making it resistant to new ideas. Sooner or later, you will run into someone with a better toy, and you feel unhappy about your purchase.

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Info Sessions: Live Answers To Your Bootcamp Questions

General Assembly

Got bootcamp on the brain? If you’ve been toying with the idea of taking an immersive bootcamp with GA, but have questions holding you back, our live info sessions have the answers.

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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

Technology and scientific advancements are also accelerating what we know about the brain and how it works. Leaders in neuroscience and brain-centered learning like Lauren Waldman are using technology to create transparency about how the brain learns. We play with this toy and then it sits in the proverbial closet.

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Behind the Scenes: Jay Shuster on The Creative Process at PIXAR #trgconf

Learning Visions

Design of the building – the left wing is the left brain – “the smartests” and the right wing is the right brain -- “the artists”. Toy collections at Pixar are like a status symbol. Do your homework.” – go to Toys R Us and buy a ton of toys. “art challenges the technology…technology inspires the art."

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Virtual reality for pain management

KnowledgeOne

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of healthy patients using VR while exposed to a painful stimulus (thermal foot pain simulator) demonstrated a more than 50% reduction in pain-related brain activity in 5 brain areas (Hoffman et al., ’ This causes the representation of the body in the brain to change. .’

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Brain rule #9

Clive on Learning

Perhaps I'm biased because these senses are not normally stimulated by e-learning, although I suppose there's nothing to stop us supplying a pack of multisensory toys to all our e-learners. Tags: reviews Brain Rules.

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Who needs toys when you have brains?

Marcia Conner

I just finished reading Josten Gaarder's book, The Ringmaster's Daughter. It wasn't my favorite book by Gaarder (that would be The Orange Girl or Sophie's World) but this book is full of interesting little stories within the main storyline. As usual, I noted lines that were particularly compelling to.

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