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General &Professional Development   04 Jan 2006 09:27 am

Learning 101    

Creating Passionate Users is becoming one of my favorite blogs, and today’s post “Crash Course in Learning Theory” really just blew me away. The best part? Basically she equates blogging with learning. Read the whole thing, but here are the highlights:

  • Talk to the brain first, mind second.
  • Learning is not a one-way “push” model.
  • Provide a meaningful benefit for each topic, in the form of “why you should care about this” scenario.
  • Use visuals!
  • Use redundancy to increase understanding and retention.
  • The more senses you engage, the greater the potential for retention and recall.
  • Maintain interest with variety and surprise.
  • Use conversational language.
  • Use the filmaker (and novelist) principle of SHOW-don’t-TELL.
  • Use “chunking” to reduce cognitive overhead.
  • Since stress/anxiety can reduce focus and memory, do everything possible to make the learner feel relaxed and confident.
  • Use seduction, charm, mystery to build curiosity.
  • Use a spiral model to keep users engaged.

  • Don’t rob the learner of the opportunity to think!
  • Use the 80/20 principle to reduce cognitive overload.
  • Context matters.
  • Emotion matters!
  • Never underestimate the power of FUN to keep people engaged.
  • Use stories.
  • Use pacing and vary the parts of the brain you’re exercising.
  • Remember, it’s never about you. It’s about how the learner feels about himself as a result of the learning experience.

    Really good stuff that I’ll be mulling over as I blog…

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    General &Knowledge Management   04 Jan 2006 05:02 am

    Trusted Sources and Suprglu    

    So today is a sad day as I’ve decided to drop Alan Levine and Tim Lauer from my Bloglines blogroll. (Sorry guys.) Their blog feeds have just become, I dunno, so one-dimensional. Sure, they’re both writing about great stuff and linking to cool tools. But I just feels like I’m missing something…

    The fix? Now I’m subscribed to Tim and Alan’s SuprGlu sites. In one feed, I get their blog posts, any links they post to del.icio.us, their Flickr photos and more. And actually, while the feed uptake is a little slower, I’m liking this a lot more. These are people whose ideas and links I trust, and I love being able to follow their practice and beyond the blog more deeply and easily. In fact, I’d love it if more of my nucleus of trusted teachers would do the same.

    And btw, here’s my Suprglu page and feed in case you’re interested. (The way I’ve been del.icio.us-ing lately, you might be.)

    C’mon…you didn’t think I be so silly as to totally drop Tim and Alan, did you?

    (As an aside, believe it or not, it took me until this morning to subscribe to Stephen’s Edu-RSS feed. And I really wish I could wrap my brain around the whole concept of what he’s trying to do with it.)

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