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Break Out the Crayons – Your Brain Needs to Color!

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They get to express themselves artistically, which can help improve self-confidence and stimulates multiple parts of the brain. More recently, neuroscience has demonstrated that the act of coloring creates more connections between multiple areas of the brain, increasing cognitive function and warding off dementia.

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Mapping Brain Science to Application

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Mapping Brain Science to Application. The post Mapping Brain Science to Application appeared first on Learning To Go. by Margie Meacham. Margie Meacham’s presentation on Mapping Neuroscience to Application, filmed at the Elearning Guild’s Learning Solutions 2015 conference, Orlando, March 2015. BrainyBot™. HR Training Bot.

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Upcoming Event: Essentials of Brain-Based Learning (Live online: Feb 8-22, 2018 & more)

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I’m proud to be the designer and instructor for ATD National’s Online Essentials of Brain-Based Learning course. Contact us for more information on how you can bring the power of our amazing brains into your own training and education programs to enhance retention, performance and application. May 24, 31 & Jun 7, 2018.

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Learning Tip Number 3: Why Storytelling Works

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If we listen to a PowerPoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated. Overall, it hits our language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning. Brain Rules Learning Storytelling' Scientists call this Broca''s area and Wernicke''s area.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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The Brain Science of Keeping Resolutions

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The Brain Science of Keeping Resolutions. The Brain on Change. One of the key points in that article is that our brain is structured with one primary purpose: to keep us alive so that we can transmit our genes to the next generation. Changing the Brain to Change Behavior. Rich Brain/Poor Brain.

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ID and eLearning Links 9/24/19

Experiencing eLearning

Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live – Issue 75: Story – Nautilus How stories are critical to how humans understand the world (and how they can sometimes lead us to draw faulty conclusions). Not being able to pigeonhole an event or idea makes it much more difficult for the brain to label and store it as a discrete memory.