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How to Combat Cognitive Overload with Connie Malamed #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

high cognitive load (which leads to poor comprehension and obstructs learning) Cognitive load affected by # of interacting elements. If you present info with big words that people have to interpret, you’re imposing high cognitive load. But to understand something, we have to bring it back from long-term memory to working memory.

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Go Beyond Boring: Creating Scenario-based Learning That Engages Participants (Podcast)

Experiencing eLearning

Our brains are wired for stories. Even when we sleep, our brains keep telling us stories all night in our dreams. Accelerate expertise: Research has shown that using scenarios helps people become experts faster. That means the scenario should be hard enough to allow people to make common mistakes so they can learn from them.

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Chief Cognitive Officer?

Clark Quinn

And I’m wondering if a focus on cognitive science needs to be foregrounded. Ok, so neuroscientist John Medina says our understanding of the brain is ‘childlike’. Regardless, we have considerable empirical evidence and conceptual frameworks that give us excellent advice about things like distributed, situated, and social cognition.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities

Learning Visions

Thursday, May 24, 2007 Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities Ive just read Richard Nantels post The Ultimate Pretest in which he talks about his interest in brain plasticity. Scientists are finding ways to change the brain through intellectual exercises. Havent yet read that brain plasticity book , but its on my list.

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Prompting Tips, AI Tools: ID Links 7/2/24

Experiencing eLearning

It also looks like a good option for people requesting calls to “pick your brain” to get them to pay something for your time and expertise. Neuroscience myths 25 Neuroscience Myths Lots of myths from pop psychology about neuroscience (plus a few from cognitive psychology or other non-neuro fields).

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3 cognitive biases to know in education

KnowledgeOne

In a previous article , we discussed the Pygmalion effect, a cognitive bias that can interfere with the teacher-learner relationship and have significant effects on learning. However, of the 250 or so cognitive biases known to date, it is not the only one that deserves special attention in education. Cognitive bias, in short.

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Shallow or Deep

Clark Quinn

I wrote about how I was frustrated with the lack of any decent learning expertise in too many vendors. The problem is whether their learning expertise is shallow or deep. This site talked about brain science, and says they know about ed psych, cognitive research, but also neuroscience. you need real expertise.

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