by Margie Meacham | May 25, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
It’s no longer newsworthy to report that multi-tasking is a myth. Neuroscience has discovered what psychology long suspected – our brain doesn’t really perform multiple cognitive tasks at the same time. Rather, it switches attention between them, spending...
by Margie Meacham | May 3, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
I am writing this post on the day that the 5,000 to 1 longshot Leicester City Foxes football (in the U.S. “Soccer”) team clinched the 2016 Premier League Championship title. Since this is arguably the biggest underdog victory in the history of sports, it...
by Margie Meacham | Apr 28, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
I write a lot about the science of learning, so today I thought we should talk about science. The word “science” comes from the Latin “scientia” which means “knowledge.” In Western culture, the ancient Greeks developed an approach...
by Margie Meacham | Apr 28, 2016 | Events, LearningToGo Blog, Past Events
The Enterprise Learning! Conference 2016 (ELC16) hosts the exclusive Learning & Workplace Technology Conference for corporate, government and higher education executives. ELC16 provides executives an engaged environment to network, share and learn from leaders...
by Margie Meacham | Apr 22, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
I recently attended a major conference of learning professionals and was surprised to hear one of the keynote speakers say, “Neuroscience has nothing to offer educational psychology today.” While many in the room were applauding, I was a little shocked and...
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