In this second part of our interview with Stella Collins, director and consultant at Stellar Learning and co-founder of Brain in Business, Stella and Ally discuss Stella’s influences, how pirates got her into training and ways to enliven ‘dry’ subject matter.
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In Part One of our interview, Stella and [...]
While reading some interesting blogs the other day a thought gently emerged in my foggy brain which then led to a question.
Is brain friendly learning, and pehaps more importantly recall, about understanding or remembering?
It’s subtle but I believe it strikes at the core of what brain friendly learning is all about.
After pondering this question for [...]
We have regularly mentioned the fact that humans are programmed to make meaning. It is this genetically hard wired need that has led to our position in the world today.
What is the evidence for this?
Imagine the scene: It is several million years in the past. Early humans have scrambled ( or more likely fallen) down [...]
We love quizzes.
We use them all over the place but in today’s slightly shorter post I wanted to share one of our favourites because it works on so many levels.
We know that quizzes are a great way to embed learning but why stop at one way when you could get three ways in one quiz?
Here’s [...]
Researchers have shown that when we read, the brain looks for patterns. No surprise there as this is what the brain is brilliant at. In this post Paul explores 2 of these patterns. First and last letters and upper case vs lower case and the impact they have on our flip charts and need to spell correctly.
