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Learning: Actively Recalling Information from Memory Beats Elaborate Study Methods
Posted February 6th, 2011 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Put down those science books and work at recalling information from memory. That's the shorthand take away message of new research from Purdue University that says practicing memory retrieval boosts science learning far better than elaborate study methods. "Our view is that learning is not about studying or getting knowledge 'in memory,'" said Purdue psychology professor Jeffrey Karpicke, the lead investigator for the study that appears January 20 in the journal Science. "Learning is about retrieving. |
Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes
Posted August 16th, 2009 by ellenfinkl
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This talk explain best practices for using PowerPoint in an educational and training environment, based on the research that has been done in the field. (A list of references follows the handout.) |
Pretty woman, dumb man…
Posted October 7th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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Johan Karremans couldn’t remember his own address when an attractive lady asked him at the end of a conversation. This Dutch psychologist had been so busy trying to impress her that his cognitive abilities were temporary exhausted. He decided to investigate this more closely and discovered man can’t think optimally after a conversation with a woman. The prettier the woman, the stronger the effect. With women this effect did not appear. |
Give Participants Time to Talk
Posted September 21st, 2009 by DanTobin
It is a common error, and one that I made early in my career. Because bringing participants together is so costly to the company, and because it happens so infrequently, there is a natural tendency to cram as much information as possible into the available time. We are an operational industry and it is time to embrace that.
Posted September 20th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things
Posted February 11th, 2010 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory. |
26 Tips for Designing Great Webcasts & Webinars
Posted September 3rd, 2009 by Samuel J. SmithBrain Needs 3D to Remember Faces
Posted September 12th, 2010 by parbuckle|
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2010) — In our dynamic 3-D world, we can encounter a familiar face from any angle and still recognize that face with ease, even if the person has, for example, changed his hair style. This is because our brain has used the 2-D snapshots perceived by our eyes (like a camera) to build and store a 3-D mental representation of the face, which is resilient to such changes. |
Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal Cues Enhance Visual Detection
Posted July 26th, 2010 by parbuckle|
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Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the object. |
Technology: Ideal In Its Place EVENTCAMP VANCOUVER
Posted November 13th, 2011 by maarten.vannest...
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Host Committee Member, EventCamp Producer Tahira Endean, CMP.
As we began planning EventCamp Vancouver there was an overriding sense that this would follow the model that focused on innovation, Social Media and technology, following the vision laid out when these began. |



















