... researchers on learning, memory, instruction, and cognition who have helped me understand learning at a deep level, enabling me to add to models that don't fully include wisdom on how learning and cognition really work to drive ...

Gaming Boosts Cognitive Skills - FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES Iowa State University psychologist Douglas Gentile, PhD, ...

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Currently, I have a mess of half-formed ideas, a couple of ugly projects, and more than a little activity in my personal life. I suspect when this phase finishes, I will have another batch of blog posts.In the meantime, I found these in my Google Reader:From Cognitive Edge - a discussion on working together and sharing information across "silos". The mistake a lot of people make is to assume that people want a lot of messy experiential data synthesized into best practice documents and doctrine. As previously mentioned the Iraq war showed the power of fragmented, experience based ...

UMapper / Home Create Flash-based interactive maps with points of interest marked. Some facilitators have asked about a way to create a map of where students are to help build a sense of community in an online class; this looks like it might work for that purpose. tags: maps, flash E-Learning Queen: The Best Way to Learn in an Online Course Advice for online learners to get the most out of their courses. Includes cognitive, behavioral, and self-regulation strategies. Even though this is geared towards learners, instructional designers can also benefit from thinking about how to teach ...

How magicians control your mind - Boston Globe A new model has arisen over the past decade, in which visual cognition is understood not as a camera but something more like a flashlight beam sweeping a twilit landscape. At any particular instant, we can only see detail and color in the small patch we are concentrating on. The rest we fill in through a combination of memory, prediction and a crude peripheral sight. We don't take in our surroundings so much as actively and constantly construct them. Seeing is Hearing: New Type of Synesthesia Discovered - Scientific American On the ...

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