Author Archives: Ally
Ally McCulloch
A big thanks – and a request for help
It’s just over 6 months since Paul and I started Brain Friendly Trainer. It began as an experiment. Work was light because of the economic downturn and we wanted to use the time wisely and do something to support others involved in designing and delivering brain friendly learning.
We made a commitment to write 2 or 3 times a week for 6 months and see what happened.
Well, this month has been our best yet, with over 1,500 visitors, most of you pop back every few days! Thanks to you all.
So what’s next…
Another lesson in learning from children
Learning is a funny thing. We have formalised a sytem of classrooms, evaluation, experts and students that can often reduce our opportunities to help others learn as well as limiting our own ability to learn
Last week I wrote about 3 things I learned about change from my daughter and next week we'll have an excellent [...]
When our passion clouds our judgement
One of the challenges we face in Brain Friendly Learning is reacting to scientific discoveries in an appropriate way. This is especially true when the headlines or accepted interpretation of the data reinforces our own experience. It's only natural that we use this new (or sometimes surprisingly old!) data in our training sessions and workshops.
We [...]
Posted in Clickables Tagged behaviour, culture, myth busting, neurology, psychology, science 2 Comments
History of Accelerated Learning by RapidBI-Mgt
Mike Morrison over at RapidBi.com has written a great article on the history of Accelerated Learning (Brain Friendly Learning). He ends with this insightful conclusion:
Anything that is good has to be handled with caution and the developments in Accelerated Learning are no exception. With the advent of the Internet, there has been a mushrooming of [...]
Posted in Clickables Tagged accelerated learning, Colin Rose, dave meier, Dr Lozanov, neurology, suggestipedia Leave a comment
Experience or memory – how do you know your learners are happy?