For many years I have been aware of the generally held view that playing Baroque music, specifically Mozart, can have a beneficial impact on learning and retention.
Some have even suggested playing Mozart to children can improve IQ and the common reason given for this is the “Mozart Effect”.
On a quiet day in the office recently [...]
During the late 1990s I was working as an internal consultant for a large American organisation implementing lean manufacturing into a number of our European factories.
One of the concepts we were working on was the “visual workplace”
Wherever possible, this involved removing reams of work instructions and procedural manuals and replacing them with flow charts and [...]
A short article on SciAm website reports research by Cognitive psychologists Weiwei Zhang and Stephen J. Luck at the University of California. They challenge long held beliefs that working memory fades gradually over a few seconds. Instead, their research suggests that working memory is held accurately for a period then dissappears suddenly.
Luck says the system [...]
We all know that great visuals enhance learning. A recent talk by Tom Wujec explains what happens inside our heads as we process visual inputs. In this TED talk video, Tom Wujec explains how he set himself the task of understanding how the brain creates meaning with the aim of improving communication so that we can think and collaborate more effectively.
One of the pillars of Brain Friendly Learning is “State Management”
As Kim Hare, Managing Director of Kaizen Training says in her book The Trainer’s Toolkit: Bringing Brain-friendly Learning to Life
“State is everything (well almost)” But what exactly is she talking about?
Exforsys offers us the following:
State is a combination of the internal representations of the mind [...]
