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Archive for March, 2009

Background to Brain Friendly Learning

How can we understand something as complex as the human brain?
Somebody once said: “if the brain was so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t!”
Your brain contains about 100 billion brain cells or neurons.  Each neuron is potentially linked to many thousands of other neurons.  The more frequently neurons communicate with [...]

Five Principles of Brain Friendly Learning

Keep it real – Making sure that there are real personal and business benefits that follow the learning event.
 
Facilitate creation not consumption – Make the materials experience based, not materials based.  The menu is not the meal, the course manual is not the experience.
 
Honour uniqueness – There are many ways of finding an answer to a problem; the way [...]