This document discusses various topics related to how adults learn, including brain development and function, memory, learning styles, attention span, and accelerated learning. It provides information on how the brain works, how we remember and forget, and factors that influence learning like stress and emotions. It also discusses the three levels of memory (sensory, short-term, and long-term), different learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic), the average adult attention span of 15-20 minutes, and techniques for making learning memorable like teaching others or using audio/visual aids.
Captures many of the new ideas about how we learn, and translates them into simple educational principles and rules. Anyone can follow them when designing learning experiences that stick.
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Brain based Learning on Nothing is an absolute, but we are learning more and more every day about how the brain functions and how that translates to behavior - including teaching and learning. Objectives are as below:-
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Learning and How to learn?Let me share some good tools for efficient way to learn
Let us begin….
Observe the word ‘learn’
Which familiar word is hiding in ‘learn’?
I learn You learn We all learn to ….
Yes! You are right. Three cheers!!!
The hidden word is ‘EARN’.
Here comes the second question.
What can we earn while learning?
You are right again!!
It depends on what is that we are learning and what for we are learning.
We may earn … certificate,
money,
job,
love,
independence etc…
but definitely we earn SATISFACTION.
Foooooo…..d
What’s your pick?
I got your attention!
That is the power of food.
As all of us need and love food, I decided to present my understanding in the form of a recipe.
Are you ready to take the simple and easy to follow recipe for a
tasty dish called……..
LEARNER?
Here ,we go!
Ingredients you need:
1. A person who wants to learn
2. Pomodoro technique
3. Deliberate practice
4. Sleep
5. Chunking and interleaving
Method
First, take a person who WANTS to learn.
Tip!
While selecting this ingredient, the only essential thing you need to look for is only ‘the urge to learn’.
Don’t worry if this item is damaged with procrastination.
Second step
In the second step, wash the learner thoroughly using ‘pomodoro technique’ to remove procrastination.
Why do we procrastinate?
Our neurons in the brain feel discomfort and cause pain whenever we start a work we really rather not to do.
Immediately the brain starts looking for something which eases pain and gives you pleasure at least temporarily.
Obviously you are postponing the required task; in other words, you are procrastinating.
Something to combat…….
What is this
‘Pomodoro’?
Pomodoro
Pomodoro(an Italian name for tomato) is the timer used in this technique.
It was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s.
It is a little, yet powerful tool to overcome procrastination, the chief enemy for a learner.
How to follow?
Steps to follow:
1. Set yourself a period of 25 minutes
2. Turn off all interruptions
3. Focus intently on the subject you want to learn
4. At the end, give yourself a little reward
How does ‘Pomodoro’ help?
Research suggests that the neural discomfort you experience when you start a work which you rather not to do, will soon disappear once your focus is intent on that given task.
The 25 minutes of intent focus helps you not only to overcome the interruptions but also to address the problem on hand.
The little reward which you give yourself at the end makes you and your brain neurons relax.
Third step
In this step, add copious amounts of ‘deliberate practice’
Why to practice?
While dealing with seemingly abstract concepts and ideas in Math and Science, you need to strengthen the neural connections that are being made during the process of learning.
The more you prac
2. The Big Picture….outcomes
Refresh knowledge and encourage CPD:
• Inside the brain – mysteries of learning
• How we remember and forget
• Making learning stick
• Dominance
• Styles
• Pyramid
• Attention span
• Accelerated Learning
3. Link to your training experiences
1. Three things you could do to enhance the
delegate’s learning?
2. Two things you could do that would reduce
the delegate’s learning?
4. Brain Quiz…..
Brain numbers answers: 18, 100,000, 75, 25, 100 billion, 300+
1. Number of ? miles of blood vessels
2. Your brain is ? % water
3. It uses ? % of your energy
4. Number of neurons ?
5. Speed ? mph info. passes around your brain
5. It stopped growing at ? age but is constantly rewiring itself
6. When is your brain more active? Awake or asleep?
7. Always creates true memories?
8. Your brain can not feel any pain?
9. When you’re asleep it creates a hormone to paralyse you?
10. Japanese researches may soon be able to put your
thoughts and dreams onto a screen?
5. Brain Development
* higher order
thinking
* problem-
solving
* understand
meaning
* emotions
* long term
memory
* basic survival
6. The effect of stress and emotions
on the brain…?
Stress:
• Causes the brain to go Reptilian…
• Blocks the Neo-Cortex and Limbic Systems
Emotions:
• The on/off switch to accessing higher learning
• Produces creativity….or anxiety
7. Memory - welcome to the Neuron…..
You have 100,000,000,000 of them in your
brain
8. Memory
Three levels of memory
1. Sensory:
Holds information for a few seconds or less
2. Short-term:
Hold information up to a minute
Q: How many items can ST remember at any
one time?
Let’s test it…….
9. Memory
How Many Words Can You Remember?
Plugs Lamp Apple Table Sway Plugs
Army Bank Fire Hold Worm Army
Clock Horse Colour Baby Sword Clock
Desk Hold Find Bird Rock Desk
Nine Swap Cell Ring Lust Nine
17. Learning Styles
Visual Learners:
• Think in terms of pictures
• Visual tools effective;
• Handouts, text, slides, graphs etc
Auditory Learners:
• Learn best by listening or speaking
• Lectures, discussions, reading aloud etc
18. Learning Styles
Kinaesthetic Learners (tactile):
• Learn best through touching, feeling and
experiencing that which they are trying to
learn
• They remember best by writing or physically
manipulating the information
19. Your Attention Span
Question:
How long is the average delegates attention span?
15-20 minutes…..
In a session, when is learning at the best:
Start, middle, end ?
BEM
What are the Implications for training?
20. Chunking
• Break up the session into 15-20 minute mini-
sessions
• Separate the mini sessions by something
active or different (ie review learning) lasting
only 2-5 minutes
• To refresh the attention span