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Dale’s Cone of Learning figures debunked

By Paul | Published: March 3, 2010
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.
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Watching the Brain Learn

By Paul | Published: February 21, 2010
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 [...]
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A question of curry

By Paul | Published: January 24, 2010
The Friday night ritual of watching TV while waiting for the Indian take-away to be delivered inspires Paul to double the amount of visual imagery he uses in his workshops this year.
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10 fantastic quotes about UNlearning

By Paul | Published: January 17, 2010
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 [...]
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Recall: It’s a bit like opening a document

By Paul | Published: December 13, 2009
Our understanding of how the brain stores and retrieves data is still in the early stages of development. What is clear though, is that the result of learning (memory?) is stored in many places in the brain. Rather than being a problem, this provides us with many ways of accessing memory when we want to [...]
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