For a lot of us, the exam season is upon us; for some it’s mocks, for others it’s the real thing. Whichever is your current situation, all over the land parents can be heard encouraging their loved ones as follows:
“Turn off that (delete as needed):
laptop
x-box
playstation
ipod
TV
mobile
Wii
… and DO SOME REVISION!”
So I thought I would share some [...]
One of the challenges we face in Brain Friendly Learning is reacting to scientific discoveries in an appropriate way. This is especially true when the headlines or accepted interpretation of the data reinforces our own experience. It’s only natural that we use this new (or sometimes surprisingly old!) data in our training sessions and workshops.
We [...]
In his book “Blink” Malcom Gladwell makes several references to the work of Dr. John Gottman.
Gottman is well respected for his research on relationship stability by using scientific direct observations published in peer reviewed literature. This makes him a man worth listening to.
While most of his work has been around predicting whether couples are likely [...]
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.
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 [...]
