10 Articles match "2009","John Medina"

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• Brain Rules - John Medina
  
  Dr John Medina’s an eccentric, he’s also an academic, an American academic, and therefore not scared of getting his message out to practitioners. Enough said. STRESS Rule 8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way. An interesting chapter as it relies heavily on the work of John Gottman, and his research around parental conflict and its effect on the attainments of their children. Neuroastrology What If only this were true in the UK. His book is readable, full of good examples and not short on serious research.
  Donald Clark Plan B - Monday, March 2, 2009
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• John Medina's "Brain Rules"
  
  John Medina - source: John Medina's web site "Toss your PowerPoint presentations. Burn your current PowerPoint presentations and make new ones." I enjoyed John Medina's excellently implemented, thoroughly referenced, browsable and entertaining Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School partly because it complemented some of my prejudices. I did my teacher-training in 1976-1977, and the proportion of the 1-year It's (sic) text-based (nearly 40 words per per slide), with six hierarchical levels of chapters
  Fortnightly Mailing - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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• Informal learning hot list for February 2009
  
  February 2009 Posts February 2009 Keywords John Medina Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. It’s a time-saver, time is money, and most of us could use more of it.
  Internet Time - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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• How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace
  
  One study by John Medina showed that "adults with chronically high stress levels performed 50% worse on certain cognitive tests than adults with low stress." Workplace bullying directly impacts the bottom line by affecting productivity, wellness (with subsequent rise in employer benefit costs), attrition, attraction and retention. Other studies estimate the financial costs of this lost productivity (at work) at more than $200 billion a year — and that's a conservative estimate.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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• Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target.
  
  Men who do the same thing are often praised as decisive," says John Medina . According to the Labor Day 2009 Survey conducted by the WBI , employers do nothing to correct the bully 53.6% The total jobless rate in the US is 10.2%, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . As the number of employees dwindles, companies are requiring fewer people to do more work, burdening an already stressed workforce.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, November 19, 2009
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• Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009
  
  Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009 Interesting that my own post got the top spot. My top ten tips for getting started with eLearning: - Ignatia Webs , April 6, 2009 It ain’t always easy to dive into eLearning. If you are indeed considering to start with an eLearning project, you might want to demystify some eLearning myths... Building Better Learning Games - Learning Visions , April 9, 2009 Interested in building casual games for your learners?
  eLearning Technology - Monday, April 13, 2009
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• Anatomy of a classroom: think out of the box
  
  Dr John Medina Out of the box At a Futurelab conference, while I waited to give a keynote talk, the organiser gave us all a piece of card, which you could fold up into a box. Dr John Medina had trialled spaced practice with mathematics, showing powerful increases in learning, by repeating practice later in the afternoon after morning sessions. John Taylor Gatto , a National " If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. And if you wanted
  Donald Clark Plan B - Thursday, February 12, 2009
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• Get out
  
  In Brain Rules , John Medina writes that if you want something to stick in your memory, learn it while walking outside. Brain Rules , John Medina View to the northeast, toward Sacramento The weather in the Bay Area was glorious today, so Cappuccino and I decided to walk up Vollmer Peak to the top of the world. We needed the exercise and we needed
  Internet Time - Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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• What do brains have to do with it?
  
  John Medina’s Brain Rules covers the latest scientific explanation of  wetware through folksy, human stories. John is a masterful science writer. A friend of my wife asked for some recommendations on books about the brain. Here are three. Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonas Lehrer is a wonderful romp about
  Informal Learning - Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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• Learning to Work, Working to Learn
  
  This reminds me how much I like to make stuff. PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlman's got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint . Getting Inspired Looking at what other, more creative people are building for eLearning seems like a no brainer. Here's some of what I've been tapping into lately for instructional design inspiration: Tom Kuhlman's Resource List for the eLearning Guild's ID Zone at the recent Annual Gathering. Articulate Guru Awards 2009 Clive Shepherd's 60-Minute
  Learning Visions - Monday, March 16, 2009
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