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Wise words
How does our speech reveal our level of intelligence? A person employing word with more syllables may seem more intelligent, but may not be. People practiced in business presentation learn to use vague multi-syllabic words to sound as if they … Continue reading
Posted in Group psychology, intelligence, Leadership, Psychology
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The “I”s do not have it.
People assume that others who often talk about themselves are egotistical. But, if you really want to find out how people view their own status, pay attention to pronouns that they use. There is a reason that kings, queens and various … Continue reading
Posted in Group psychology, Mental health
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Failing to allow failure
At the beginning of my son’s senior year we went on a mad rush of college visits trying to find the most elite school offering a computer science degree where he would actually have a shot at getting accepted. MIT … Continue reading
Did you actually read what you thought you read?
The first few years my daughter was in grade school, she would sit at the table in the breakfast nook and do homework while I prepared dinner. One evening while I stirred cracker crumbs into a meatloaf mix, she sat … Continue reading
The mystery behind the motivation to learn
No matter how much we describe the function of the brain to illuminate how people learn, the biggest mystery is what causes people to want to learn. Typically when someone dives into why certain people excel at learning they come … Continue reading
Posted in Education trends
Tagged brain based instruction, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation
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Feeling and knowing
Almost all articles on brain based learning will emphasize the importance of emotions in learning. Emotions are supposed to direct our attention and aid our memory. Learning accompanied by emotional impact lasts far longer than a lecture that goes in … Continue reading
Neat little boxes
Not all research on how the brain functions comes to the same conclusions. In fact one of the major problems with applying brain-based theories in actual instruction is that the findings are frequently contradictory. The cellular structure of the brain … Continue reading
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Tagged brain based instruction, prejudice
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Learning from inside out
The instructor in my high school English class was rather dry. She would drone on about difference between past and subjunctive verbs, and participles and gerunds. However, she was a well-read and well-traveled person. On the side wall she had … Continue reading
Learning in the eye of the beholder
During a post graduate course in learning design, one of the students attempted to present instruction on the solar system without the use of any visuals. After the professor gave a curt lecture on importance of multi-sensory instruction, she asked … Continue reading
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Tagged brain base learning, dale's cone of leanring, dual encoding
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