Recently while running a management development programme, Paul was stopped during the break by one of the participants who said they were leaving. They proceeded to give an account of the earlier session that made Paul wonder if they had been in the same room!
In this post Paul explores the impact that beliefs and (pre)understanding have when a learner encounters new material that raises an alternative point of view.
For ages now I have been planning to write some posts about the power of “story” but for a number of reasons (some of which I don’t yet understand myself) I have been unable.
SO, when I came across an article by Jill Chivers yesterday, I thought I’d share it with you. It’s called “The Power [...]
Edgar Dale was a US educationist and professor of educations at Ohio State University. In 1946 he developed his most famous model, the cone of learning.Since then it has been quoted frequently, far and wide as the definitive evidence for how we retain information when delivered in various styles and mediums and has informed how to design training courses in specific ways.
This is unfortunate, because the figures we associate with the model are meaningless. In this post, Paul explains why and encourages to be careful when sharing ‘facts’ with others.
Following a link a few months ago I found this facinating article written by R.Douglas Fields on Scientific American website called “Watching the brain learn”
It seems that only half of the brain is “grey matter” The rest is made up of relatively un-researched white matter which, as this article says, appears to be extremely influential [...]
Over Christmas I spent some time trawling the interweb for interesting blogs, thoughts and ideas and I came across these.
I really love the idea of unlearning that which isn’t useful any more or is unsupported or is no longer relevent in todays world.
Ally and I have already posted some “debunking” posts and I guess these [...]
