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LearningToGo Brain & Learning Newsletter - Vol. 3, No. 7 - March 30, 2017
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Featured Podcast
Podcast: Elizabeth Jameson - Intersection of Art and Science
Elizabeth Jameson is an artist who specializes in the intersection of art and science. She creates with the intent of transforming how people view the human experience of disease, allowing room for celebration of the imperfect body. Her practice emerged after she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Undergoing numerous brain scans to track the progression of the disease, she developed a deep fascination with the architecture of the brain. Elizabeth reinterprets these frightening yet mesmerizing images, using her own brain scans to describe the ever-changing experience of living with a progressive disease, with the goal of expanding the visual language of illness.
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Featured Infographic
This featured infographic comes originally from
Visual Literacy project, an effort to teach college students how to express complex data in visual format.
This infographic summarizes recent data on the popular practice of brainstorming. You may be surprised by its limitations. This site is a treasure trove of wonderful tools for any learning professional. Here are just a couple of great things I found:
The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
This clever chart uses one space on chemistry's periodic table for each data visualization method featured.
With this chart, you'll never be stuck for a new way to depict data in your course again.
Tutorial on Visualization for Business and Management
In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of how the brain processes images and how you can use images to convey complex information.
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What's on Margie's Bookshelf?
How To Write Your Memoirs-revised
by
Johnny Ray
Why I like it
I believe everyone has an important story inside them and Brain Matters 2015 speaker Johnny Ray helps you bring that story to life in this eminently helpful book. One of the most prolific and successful fiction writers of our time, Johnny Ray gives you a step-by-step process by using your own story to create a book that others will want to read.
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Mentoring New Leaders Without Real-World Experience International Mentoring Association Conference
According to Malcolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours of concentrated practice to become an expert in any field or skill. In the past, many companies were able to develop new leaders from within, using this principle to provide several carefully crafted years of field experience, stretch assignments and mentoring relationships to build their leadership pipeline. Unfortunately, the pace of change is so accelerated in today's super-heated climate that we no longer have 10,000 hours. With baby boomers retiring and the need for leadership more critical than ever, most companies will have to promote Millennial employers who are long on talent but short on experience into leadership roles they may not be ready for. Fortunately, Dr. Nanette Miner and I are collaborating on a brain-based leadership development program that leverages the latest discoveries in neuroscience to build skill-building experience that can simulate some of those 10,000 hours.
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May 4-18, 2017
Essentials of Brain-Based Learning (Live online: May 4-18, 2017 and more)
Spaces are filling quickly! Register today to be sure you don't miss this live event.
If you could understand what was happening in the brains of your target audience, would you be a more effective trainer, designer, consultant, or leader? Thanks to recent advances in neuroscience, learning and talent development professionals now have an opportunity to alter their approaches to change management, leadership development, training, and instructional design. Learn how the brain receives, encodes, and retrieves information to construct knowledge, and use these insights to improve your learning programs.
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If you're a member of ATD, remember that you get a nice discount on this and other ATD courses. (And if you're not a member, this might be a good reason to
join.)
All scheduled dates for Essentials of Brain-Based Learning course:
- May 4-18, 2017
- Sep 7-21, 2017
- Oct 26-Nov 9, 2017
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Sept 25-27, 2017
Training Magazine 2017 Online Learning Conference (Sept 25-27, New Orleans) - Learning Begins After Class: The Forgetting Curve in Online Learning
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve demonstrates how quickly we forget new information. Within the first 10 minutes, your learner has already forgotten a significant amount of the information that you worked hard to convey in your online course. Within 24 hours, most learners will forget at least half of your content and retention continues to decrease steadily after that. So why are so many online learning courses designed with a "one and done" approach? In this 60-minute session you will learn how the brain deliberately "forgets" and how you can overcome the forgetting curve through purposeful follow-up and reinforcement after training has taken place. You will walk away with a plan to build value in your learning designs through reinforcement that is grounded in learning science.
Join me in New Orleans to learn simple, easy-to-implement activities and challenges to enhance memory and retention after class is finished.
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Want me to speak at your next virtual or onsite event?
Contact us and let me know. Be sure to tell me if you are an ATD or SHRM member, or a school of any type. Special discounts may apply.
We can design a custom topic, or choose from some of my post popular talks:
- Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Enhance Learning and Performance
- The Brain Science of Leadership Development
- Healthy Brains for a Healthy Organization
- If You're Not Getting Smarter, You're Going the Other Direction
- The Trainer's Guide to Gaining and Keeping Attention in 8 Seconds or Less
- The Neuroscience of Infographics
- Brain-Aware Instructional Design
- The Future of Learning
- The Neuroscience of Webinars and VILTs
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