Guy Malone writes an enjoyable blog on his experiences as a waiter. Last month he described an amusing encounter he’d had with two customers who were settling in for a night of heavy drinking: Pointing at their nearly-empties, I ask these these two gentlemen, “A couple more beers guys?” “Yes” was the quick response. [...] Read more »
Action mapping
Cathy Moore has a very interesting blog post on action mapping. You can see her presentation embedded below. View more presentations from Cathy Moore. (tags: concept mapping instructional design) What she calls action mapping can also be called goal mapping. But she does make a very important point…. The whole purpose of learning is not [...] Read more »
John Medina’s rule – repeat to remember
John Medina, a brain scientist and the author of Brain Rules, talks about the development of long-term memory in this interesting video. According to him, it takes 10 years for long-term memories to become permanent – and even then knowledge needs active repetition for this to happen. He tells the story of Boeing asking him [...] Read more »
The importance of structure
The problem with many presentations is that we are given only two levels of information – the slide headlines and the bullet-pointed text – as illustrated below. However, the actual structure of content is usually much more sophisticated – as Fig 2 below gives some idea of – with topics, sub-topics and sub-sub-topics. In order [...] Read more »