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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Brains switch off when we see a slide full of bullet points. Our brains are active for language processing but nothing else. When we hear stories, our brains light up all over–we experience a story as if we were part of it. Our brains are wired to learn from stories. Be detail oriented, craft mental movies.

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

Learning Visions

Let's start with attention. How long is the avg attention span? But there's really not a practical limit to our attention span if we WANT to pay attention. Think a 13 hour Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon. So for our learners -- I need you to pay attention now, but when are you actually going to need this?

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

Attentions spans are shrinking, nobody can pay attention for more than a few seconds. Just to clear things up, an attention span is that thing that allows us to pay attention to something. You know, when something captures our attention because it’s so incredibly interesting and we can’t turn away.

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The Neurobiology of Why Your Learner’s Brain Responds to Great Storytelling

Maestro

When you think about the power of storytelling, your first thought might be of the movies—even as Hollywood continues to churn out stories that follow familiar arcs we’ve seen time and again, we keep showing up and finding ourselves drawn in, happily paying to see it play out in different forms on the big screen. And now you’re hooked.

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Don’t Look Now, but We May Have Just Missed the Singularity

Learningtogo

At least, I used to think that this was a side interest, only tenuously connected to my “day job,” until several different threads converged in my brain and got me thinking: What if the Singularity – meaning the emergence of a true “artificial” intelligence (AI) — has already happened and most of us just haven’t noticed?

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Movie-based Learning to Increase Sales Reps’ Attention Span

CommLab India

A recent study by Microsoft showed that the attention span of most Gen-Y learners is 8 seconds, shorter than that of a goldfish. Being a sales training manager, how can you beat the short attention span of your sales force? That’s the reason we remember the characters’ name, story, scenes, and even famous dialogues from movies.

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Effective Video Training – Breaking it down

Dashe & Thomson

It catches our attention. A good training video can bring out a similar level of engagement as a good movie or television show. The combination of video and audio reinforces the content in several different areas of the brain – increasing the likelihood that the material will be stored in long-term memory.