10 Articles match "brain","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. 12 Brain Rules His 12 Brain Rules are a practical list of things you as a parent, learner or learning professional can immediately apply: EXERCISE Rule 1: Exercise boosts brain power. SURVIVAL Rule 2: The human brain evolved, too. WIRING Rule 3: Every brain is wired differently. ATTENTION Rule 4: We don't pay attention to boring things. SHORT-TERM MEMORY Rule 5: Repeat
  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
  Fortnightly Mailing - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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• Brain Rules
  
  The closing keynote at DevLearn 08 by John Medina, author of Brain Rules , knocked my socks off. Amazingly, the brain’s executive function improves or deteriorates with aerobic exercise. Read John’s book, but in the meanwhile you might want to ponder this shaky video I shot from the front row. Memory is not what you thought it was. “Immediate 8220;Immediate memory” holds onto things for 30 seconds. “Working
  Internet Time - Saturday, November 15, 2008
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• Medina keynote on Brain Rules at DevLearn 08
  
  John Medina gave the closing keynote at DevLearn, based upon his book Brain Rules.  One of his points was that our brains evolved to provide ongoing performance guidance over hours of constant motion (evolutionarily).  He covered two of his 12 rules, on memory, and on exercise.  He spoke fast, was enthusiastic, funny, and knowledgeable. 
  Learnlets - Friday, November 14, 2008
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• Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target.
  
  In fact, brains of bullies may actually work differently , according to Jean Decety, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago , who conducted fMRI scans of typical children and those with aggressive conduct disorder: "When you see someone in pain, you get an aversive signal. N]euroscience has also discovered that the human brain is highly plastic," says David Rock in his article " Managing with the Brain in Mind ." "Neural 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,
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, November 19, 2009
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• Anatomy of a classroom: think out of the box
  
  " 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. 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. Boxed in Given what we know about the brain and learning And if you wanted to change things, you might have to...start start over. "
  Donald Clark Plan B - Thursday, February 12, 2009
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• What do brains have to do with it?
  
  A friend of my wife asked for some recommendations on books about the brain. Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonas Lehrer is a wonderful romp about how we perceive reality, told in a series of stories about artists who perceived how brains work fifty to a hundred years ahead of the scientists themselves. John Medina’s Brain Rules covers the latest scientific explanation of  wetware through folksy, human stories. Here are three. I
  Informal Learning - Wednesday, July 8, 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. Alvaro Fernandez relates physical fitness to brain fitness. 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.
  Internet Time - Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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• Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009
  
  This sounds a bit like a sale pitch, so I have to warn you in advance, there are a lot of other solar panels for different equipments out there. Brain rules #3 - Clive on Learning , April 1, 2009 Rule 3: Every brain is wired differently In this chapter, John Medina explains how every brain is different from every other: "When you learn something, the wiring in your brain changes." "What What you do in life physically changes what your brain looks like." "Our Coming back after a week of being mostly disconnected I'm woefully behind on email and even more so on my reading.
  eLearning Technology - Monday, April 13, 2009
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• Learning to Work, Working to Learn
  
  At the moment, my book wish list includes: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Cliff Atkinson) Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) (John Medina) From Training to Performance Improvement (Jeanne Farrington) via Harold Jarche Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non Designer's Design Book) (Robin Williams) Principles of Instructional Design (Robert Gagne) Be sure to check out Essential Reading
  Learning Visions - Monday, March 16, 2009
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