Mobile phones in the training room have a really bad reputation. Whether it is managers keeping one eye on their blackberry or an advisor tapping out a sneaky text under the table, they are perceived as a source of distraction by most trainers. Yet, a High School in Tampa Bay are allowing students to use their phones during lessons – with really positive results.
Reading news that Jenson Button paid his own travel expenses this year came as a bit of a surprise. It made me think about his reaction to the possibility of redundancy last winter and the sacrifices (compromises?) he made to support the team and become World Champion. How can this help us as brain friendly [...]
Sharon Gaskin from the Trainers Training Company posted a great link on twitter: Learning should be the emphasis in staff development
It includes this fantastic paragraph:
With most training programs, the emphasis is on the trainer disseminating information to participants. It is the trainer’s responsibility to get the material across. Training is simply an event that occurs [...]
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
So how much do you create a soundscape in your training rooms?
Recently I’ve had several conversations about action learning sets and learning through doing. A colleague reminded me of the importance of having the learning process reflect the learning content and gave a bad example of a lecture about learner participation!
I then saw this cartoon and it made me smile as it raises all kinds of questions about experiential learning
