Storytellers Become The Story: Obama and Hilary

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Synthesis: Results of a neuroscience study explain how storytelling builds empathy among people who collectively listen to it. If plain storytelling could already create impact, imagine what interactive narratives using state-of-the-art technologies could further achieve. eLearning developers must support storylines with…

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‘Story Editing’ as a Technique for Improving eLearning

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Synthesis: Timothy D. Wilson’s book, Redirect, affirms the the power of ‘story editing’ as a learning technique that could positively change a person’s behavior, mindset, and attitude. Story editing our life experiences could help us overcome fear, change bad behavior,…

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Improving 21st Century Competencies thru Storytelling

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Synthesis. Paul Oord and Cecile Crutzen in their paper, Storytelling as a Link Between Formal Knowledge and Actual Performance in a Critical Transformative Design Environment, expound on the connection between formal knowledge and actual performance. The crux of the challenge could be unraveled by…

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Can you explain the “Fiscal Cliff Crisis” to an Eight-year old?

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The title of this article is a challenge to educators, designers, and developers on how to turn complex financial subjects into simple understandable lessons. Finance matters are very important in current real life situations as America continues to thread the tightrope…

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Are You Riding the Waves or the Ripples? Tracking Learning Trends

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Synthesis: The Thought/Action Wave and the Brain/Technology Wave are two particular learning principles that enable faster, cheaper and easier learning. The speed at which innovations propel these learning concepts are discussed here. __________________________________________________________________________ I am not a surfer. The closest…

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Instant and Rapid One-Minute Learning for mLearning and eLearning

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Synthesis: In a rapid, constantly-changing, technology-enabled work environment, which one works best – linear or random learning? How do we rethink or reformulate to make the linear content friendly to random learning?  How does this benefit instant learning for busy…

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