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Twitter Updates from last week 2010-03-28

Twitter Updates from last week 2010-03-21 | Brain Friendly Trainer http://aweber.com/b/PMQD #
just read: Why is talking with gestures easier than talking without them?: Why is talking along with gestures so … http://bit.ly/amdfKP #
Another lesson in learning from children | Brain Friendly Trainer http://aweber.com/b/TA7D #
just read: Fox's Glacier Mints & trashy training: I did something [...]

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Top 10 activities for participant centered learning

Following on from my “top 10” (ways to split a group) post a couple of weeks ago I thought I would do another one.
So here, in no particular order, are my top 10 activities for un-facilitated learning:

Check list – each participant is provided with a tick list of activities they should have completed by the [...]

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Another lesson in learning from children

Childsplay - learning can happen when we just live life and notice

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Twitter Updates from last week 2010-03-21

Twitter Updates from last week 2010-03-14 | Brain Friendly Trainer http://aweber.com/b/UIcv #
RT @cheekturner: just putting the finishing touches to a great guest post by Jooli Atkins (@m42train) it'll be going live at about 11:00GMT #
@wowatwork @reichweite @jedlangdon Thankyou for RT's and FF's. We are really pleased that you find our stuff useful:) #
@TMSDImarkgilroy @TNMCoaching @MentorGuru [...]

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