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Brain and Memory with Arthur Kohn #astdtk13

Learning Visions

I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference kicking off today January 29, 2013 in San Jose, California. Brain and Memory: Seven Tips that Improve E-Learning. Fulbright Professor of Cognitive Science. But what you encode in your brain is a representation of that word or connotations you have with that word.

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Using Game Design To Create Accomplishment Based Learning, Julie Dirksen #astdtk13 @usablelearning

Learning Visions

I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference in San Jose, California. You have a rider -- the conscious, verbal thinking brain -- and the elephant -- the automatic, emotional, visceral brain. Higher cognitive load in one group vs. the other who had easy math tasks. We think it has to do with brain glucose.

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How to stimulate engagement in elearning

KnowledgeOne

” In active engagement, the learner is an actor in their learning and mobilizes as many of their cognitive skills as possible. 2001, for a demonstration using brain imaging). Incorporating game elements such as scoring, levels, and badges makes learning more fun and rewarding, activating the brain’s reward circuits.

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eLearning Conferences 2012

Tony Karrer

link] February 7-10, 2012 iConference 2013: Culture, Design, Society, hosted by the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. link] May 31-June 2, 2012 Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting: Rethinking Cognitive Development, 42 nd annual, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Through a child's eyes

Learning with e's

Research from the behavioural and cognitive sciences, neurosciences and pedagogical research fields is regularly yielding new findings. One of the most interesting reports I have read recently appeared in the February 2013 edition of The Psychologist. 2013) Learning from learners. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Brain activity in numbers

KnowledgeOne

Our brain is never really at rest. This is what neuroscientists have uncovered by discovering the functioning of its so-called “default” network, which is activated in a way that is opposite to the executive network that manages our high-level cognitive processes. Marcus Raichle quoted in Le Monde, 2013 ).

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Learning to Read Their Minds

CLO Magazine

New insights into how the brain works are changing how learning leaders structure programs and how the corporate learning industry thinks about knowledge retention and study habits. Thanks to an explosion in brain research during the past 10 years, scientists know more about the brain than ever before. Cognitive Strategy No.