eLearning Brothers

MARCH 13, 2017

One obvious example of this comes when movie night rolls around. You sit down to pick a movie to stream, and suddenly you’re given thousands of potential options. Infographics allow us to display information and data in an eye-catching way that is bound to stick in the learner’s brain. Authenticity. More permanence.

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Maestro

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Think a 13 hour Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon. You have a rider -- the conscious, verbal thinking brain -- and the elephant -- the automatic, emotional, visceral brain. We think it has to do with brain glucose. Your brain on Tetris. What about elephants? Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

By going outside of your comfort zone, you stimulate your brain into new realms. I think it stemmed from my love of history and my desire to understand what the enemy soldiers were saying in the movies. During the daily grind it’s easy to slip into production mode and put your brain into hibernation. It’s daunting.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The brain filters information (to prevent information overload), in principle you forget the most information that you encounter, you need to reactivate the facts in order to really store them in your brain. John is the producer of many movies, the most famous ones are Titanic and Avatar. He refers to research by Rodigger.

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Learningtogo

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you review the list of the top-grossing movies of all time, you’ll see a similar list. Is there some mechanism in the brain that encourages us to turn our fear of manmade and natural disasters into blockbuster films? Our brains make a split-second decision to face the danger head on or run – as fast as our legs can carry us.

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Learningtogo

OCTOBER 27, 2017

If you review the list of the top-grossing movies of all time, you’ll see a similar list. Is there some mechanism in the brain that encourages us to turn our fear of manmade and natural disasters into blockbuster films? Our brains make a split-second decision to face the danger head on or run – as fast as our legs can carry us.

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Making Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

“Showing&# feedback emulates real life: something happens and the learner draws a conclusion from it, using a lot more brain. You’d become like an annoying parent who interrupts a movie to tell the children to never do what the protagonist just did. It’s also more concrete and therefore more likely to be remembered.

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Making Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

“Showing&# feedback emulates real life: something happens and the learner draws a conclusion from it, using a lot more brain. You’d become like an annoying parent who interrupts a movie to tell the children to never do what the protagonist just did. It’s also more concrete and therefore more likely to be remembered.

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Eat Learn Repeat

MARCH 27, 2018

The best example would be the recent “Justice League” feature film which turned out to be the lowest-grossing DC universe movie ever. In fact, it is the biggies that often fail to impress. It seems the easiest thing to do is to throw the blame on budgets whenever a training fails. But is this justified? how not to.

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Learningtogo

JUNE 3, 2016

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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eLearning Brothers

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You know you have become an eLearning nerd when watching a movie all you think about is gamification and instructional design. During the movie Ender plays and interacts with a variety of game simulations and interactive graphics. Hypoxia happens when your brain is deprived of oxygen. It was cool eLearning game stuff!

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 13, 2014

Don''t crack up Bend your brain See both sides Throw off your mental chains. Why does the voice over for all of the major movie trailers almost always have to be a male - and a ''deep, baritone with dramatic tonal qualities'' one at that? Jones hasn''t only written a catchy riff and a great hook line. Unported License.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It’s an excellent movie. She had a tumor in her brain stem detected last November, had an operation on Thanksgiving, shrunk it with radiation after that. I watched Erin Brockovich again last night. While it’s based on a true story, the producers have obviously used their poetic licence to boost its dramatic effect.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 24, 2012

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. It catches our attention. Show people doing stuff.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 21, 2012

Technology…delivery text, images, music, movies…there’s a pattern across CD ROMS to browsers to phones…we’re kind of stuck in this loop now. Bringing the left and right brain together. Design = making solutions; Art = making questions Artists ask why.why not? Scientists are inspired by artists. Design makes something desirable.

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KnowledgeOne

MAY 24, 2023

Neuroscience has made remarkable advances in unravelling the mysteries of the human brain. As our understanding of how the brain functions expands, so does our ability to apply this knowledge to various fields, particularly education. Here are five teaching strategies backed by neuroscience that can enhance learning experiences.

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eLearningMind

MAY 14, 2017

From the dawn of time—think cave paintings and oral traditions—to the modern methods of seeing a movie or being absorbed by a good book, the power of stories captivates, motivates, and creates a strong bond between memory and content. A good story lights up a specific part of your brain; specifically, the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 4, 2019

Don’t just watch super-hero movies be one. Don’t waste your energy and precious brain space on little stuff. When you allow others to chip away at those values, you degrade what is important to you. You are not willing to stand out and take risks. When you do not dare to be different. Use your superpowers. Start with your words.

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fewStones

DECEMBER 5, 2023

How Our Brains Process Information Remembering Things Remembering things is making mental notes in your brain. When you learn something, your brain takes snapshots using your senses, such as seeing, hearing, or feeling. How Watching Videos Affects Our Brain Watching videos is a way we work out our brains.

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CommLab India

JULY 15, 2016

Well, movie-based learning will help you gain the attention span of your sales force as it creates a deeper neural connection with the content. Studies show that the human brain processes information easily and stores it for later recall when received in the form of movies. What is movie-based learning? Evokes emotions.

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KnowledgeOne

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Do you know the characteristics of the brain at different life stages? Do you know how stress affects the brain and how to help the brain to relax? Find out more: Brain activity in numbers. A) The brain retains the ability to evolve and adapt throughout life. Do you have any idea how many thoughts we have in a day?

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CommLab India

AUGUST 25, 2016

The answer is movie-based learning. Let’s now see the reasons why movie-based learning is effective. Movie-based learning has: A Story. Movie-based learning includes a pack of emotions, actions, knowledge etc. Source: [link]. Pack of emotions. Source: [link]. Effective audio narration. Characters. Source: [link].

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TOPYX LMS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

For example, think of your favorite movies. In her article The Role of Emotions in Learning , she wrote, “When the limbic system interprets a situation as being ‘safe’, it facilitates learning by releasing another set of chemicals that open the higher cognitive centers of the brain, namely, the cortical region.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 27, 2008

The device strapped to the player's forehead monitors brain activity - literally, the amount of oxygen coursing through his prefrontal cortex - by shining near-infrared light through his skull and measuring changes in the light's intensity. Ayaz, a Ph.D. yes, according to the article.] Indeed, jobs are available.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 9, 2010

Sure, we still tell stories in the form of books and movies – in fact we’re inundated with them – but I’m not alone in feeling that the big publishing houses and film studios of the world have hijacked the art of storytelling for the sake of pure entertainment. I decided to put my money where my brain was.

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Learningtogo

AUGUST 28, 2021

We’ve been hearing so much about artificial intelligence (in the news and in movies) for years and we’ve heard some theories on how it might impact the learning and development world. So for example, it’s not what you’ve seen in the sci-fi movies and Star Trek. Artificial Intelligence in Talent Development.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!” She plugs a jack directly into her brain and downloads the skills. They live for the challenge that makes them draw upon as many parts of their brain as they can to pull the rabbit out of the hat.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 6, 2013

I thought it was an incredible/incredulous coincidence that my dentist was at the movie theater and saw me buy the popcorn. He racked/wracked his brain to try to figure out how to get in without his ticket, which he left/had left at home. Take a stab at the correct answers and send them to me. 

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Learningtogo

MAY 3, 2016

This tendency seems to validate the statement that our brain is hard-wired for survival , an observation made by John Medina and others. Your brain wants to keep you alive above all else; an attractive next-best option is to keep other members of the species alive. But human behavior is rarely that straight forward.

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HexaLearn

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The narrative experience is enhanced with the integration of movies, engaging simulations, and visually appealing illustrations. Fascinating Facts About Storytelling The ability of storytelling to stimulate cognitive processes and various parts of the brain linked to sensory stimulation is one amazing element of its impact on education.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

We never finish a movie. Design of the building – the left wing is the left brain – “the smartests” and the right wing is the right brain -- “the artists”. Jay's in the art department as the production designer – his team designs everything you see on the screen. make it great.” Pixar goes into a film without a locked script.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2019

That is, a new model that says that that our brains work to minimize surprise. But horror movies or thrillers? Some weeks back, I posted about surprise. We learn so as not to be wrong. And that made sense in one way, but left another gap. Why would we do things like try out Escape Rooms or The Void (as I’ve done with colleagues)?

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Training Industry

APRIL 2, 2013

Force-feeding your brain information will not make you smarter, wiser or more productive. Not enough brain parts are activated unless there is novelty; the brain can’t remember when it is bored. The words will go into your brain and bounce out as if on a trampoline within 48 hours or less, often much less.

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Degreed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It’s given us insights into how people’s brains function when they hear information communicated in story form: 1. Our brains instead narrate what might have happened. Because of the way stories engage our brains, they’re more memorable than facts — even strong, powerful facts. Three Reasons Stories Matter. Stories stick.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 29, 2009

Ah, one of my favorite quotes from the movie, Top Gun. which led me to thinking about Top Gun and then got me thinking about one of my favorite topics, screencapture and screencasting (yes, that's how my brain works)! "I feel the need. the need for speed!" Remember that scene? Last weekend was the Indianapolis 500.

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Nick Leffler

APRIL 21, 2015

It used to be just newspapers where we got our news, then came radio, then TV, then Internet, then our brains exploded. I mentioned above there’s so much stuff coming at us we’re likely to experience a brain explosion. Could you imagine a movie 40 years ago at 3 hours long? There’s also a ton of crap.

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