11 Articles match "John Medina","learning"

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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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• Informal learning hot list for February 2009
  
  The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. on the eLearning Learning Hot List on Informal Learning A Guide to Social Learning 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.
  Internet Time - Tuesday, March 3, 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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• Medina keynote on Brain Rules at DevLearn 08
  
  John Medina gave the closing keynote at DevLearn, based upon his book Brain Rules.  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 ). This leads to implications that are contrary to most of our learning contexts! 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.
  
  Neural connections can be reformed, new behaviors can be learned, and even the most entrenched behaviors can be modified at any age." 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.
  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. few lessons were exemplary, but the truth was that in many others, the students were not engaged, easily distracted and learning very little, sometimes nothing at all. In terms of learning, they are often " 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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• Learning to Work, Working to Learn
  
  This post is my contribution to this month's Work/Learning Blog Carnival hosted by the venerable Dave Ferguson . The last time I posted for this carnival (almost a year ago!) I wrote about trying to build learning into work when you're just too busy doing work . This go-round, I'm at the other end of things: in a much-needed lull between projects, taking a breather. A great time to brush Opening my eyes, looking around, and seeing what I can see. This reminds me how much I like to make stuff. PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlman's got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid
  Learning Visions - Monday, March 16, 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. The impact of learning disorders subsides in half the kids who take breaks in the woods instead of concrete playgrounds. 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
  
  So, here's the hot list for April 1 - April 11 via eLearning Learning ... Although everyone learns most from their mistakes, it does save a lot of money if you keep some tips in the back of your mind. 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? Coming back after a week of being mostly disconnected I'm woefully behind on email and even more so on my reading. Luckily,
  eLearning Technology - Monday, April 13, 2009
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