John Medina gave the closing keynote at DevLearn, based upon his book Brain Rules.  He covered two of his 12 rules, on memory, and on exercise.  He spoke fast, was enthusiastic, funny, and knowledgeable.  He talked about myths of learning, and said that he didn’t think there was a lot neuroscience had to say to learning design (thankfully, cf Willingham ). One of his points was that our brains evolved to provide ongoing performance guidance over hours of constant ... revising schools would work better, sadly too true.  So, repeat if you need it to stick (a great opportunity for mobile ...

Opportunities - Focus on knowledge, not skills - Over produced, under designed - Lack of emotional engagement - Uninformed by ... pattern matching - Learns - compiles knowledge, inaccessible + We start with explicit - then compile. Gets into ... is the least I need to do to get them over the hump. Can't dump a bunch of knowledge on people and expect anything to ... . They don't have access to the reality of it. It's a story. "Gotta know x,y,z,a,b,c...." + Focus on KNowledge (the knowledge dump) + Gotta make sure that it's a meaningful decision change. + Gotta be able to access and APPLY ...

Mobilizing Tests: Building & Deploying Assessments to Cell Phones (Robert Gadd) Why use mLearning? Because we ... works with all major phone platforms (iPhone, Blackberries, and Windows Mobile). The system also allows people to choose ... most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.â¬ý We need to adapt. For knowledge ...

Especially as they become more available on mobile phone. See the time I spent at the airport with Scrabble and Poker ... provide the slides / presentation material) Issue - range of audience Need - ID existing Knowledge level of learner to ... - Try to get consistency of knowledge across the new employee base - Bosses want people on job quickly. - ...

Knowledge maturing and learning 17729 views ... : knowledge or multimedia c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/captivate.html skills Slide 36: 33 ...

Creating Knowledge: Network Structure and Innovation When organizations begin planning new ways for employees to share knowledge, the focus is often misplaced on the explicit act of sharing knowledge itself. We cannot meaningfully “force” people to share. At best, we can create situations/conditions/ecologies in which exchange of ideas will occur. Or, more succinctly : “Promoting knowledge sharing ... Designing Mobile Learning According to the Oxford Internet Institute, the use of ...

... learn the foundations of knowledge work . If you attended college and used a card catalog and microfiche reader, then you ... foundational knowledge work skills. That's really the last time that someone (a teacher) taught you how to do these things ... new skills ? How to take notes on a laptop, PC? How to work with mobile devices and keep them in sync? How to ... knowledge worker. So, maybe you are okay? Well consider the following: I effectively use the Google filetype ... situations My strong belief is that the foundations of knowledge work are changing fairly quickly and most of ...

... using mobile phones should be forced to do a course on texting, then forced to text more often than talk on the phone ... more diverse your knowledge, the more interesting the interconnections -- so you can boost your creativity simply ...

... resulted in a lot of extra knowledge. I would have blogged live from the venue, but the hotel's infrastructure could not ... keynote speach of Diane Laurillard who is well-known for her ground breaking work on (mobile) learning methodologies ... her publications . mLearn keynote Diane Laurillard - Towards a pedagogy-driven account of mobile learning Dianne ... knowledge and definitely positive on new learning techniques in which the learner is central in identifying what they want ... developing ideas and knowledge. Social constructivist: debate, ideas, develop your own concepts, the social aspects ...