12 Articles match "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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• 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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• Informal learning hot list for February 2009
  
  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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• Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target.
  
  Men who do the same thing are often praised as decisive," says John Medina . 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. Bullies, especially bullying bosses, are unaffordable.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, November 19, 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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• Brain Rules
  
  The closing keynote at DevLearn 08 by John Medina, author of Brain Rules , knocked my socks off. Read John’s book, but in the meanwhile you might want to ponder this shaky video I shot from the front row. Also, see John’s book site . 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.  He covered two of his 12 rules, on memory, and on exercise.  He spoke fast, was enthusiastic, funny, and knowledgeable.  He talked about myths of learning, and said that he didn’t think there was a lot neuroscience had to say to learning design (thankfully, cf Willingham ).
  Learnlets - Friday, November 14, 2008
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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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• 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 My notion is that systems, e.g. Climbing the collaboration curve , April 8, 2009 Jon Husband sent me the link to short post by John Seely Brown, John Hagel, and Lang Davison on The Collaboration
  eLearning Technology - Monday, April 13, 2009
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