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Tag Archives: neurology
Dale’s Cone of Learning figures debunked
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.
History of Accelerated Learning by RapidBI-Mgt
Mike Morrison over at RapidBi.com has written a great article on the history of Accelerated Learning (Brain Friendly Learning). He ends with this insightful conclusion:
Anything that is good has to be handled with caution and the developments in Accelerated Learning are no exception. With the advent of the Internet, there has been a mushrooming of [...]
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Watching the Brain Learn
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 [...]
Posted in Theory Also tagged accelerated learning, brain, brain scan, meaning, memory Leave a comment
Recall: It’s a bit like opening a document
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 [...]
Brain Friendly(ness) as a way of life?