by Margie Meacham | Mar 25, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Are you happy? Don’t overthink your answer, don’t parse it into happiness in some parts of your life but not others, happy about certain things and not others. These mental gymnastics are clever ways to avoid the central question – are you happy? It’s a simple but...
by Margie Meacham | Mar 17, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
When I started my consulting business more than a decade ago, I was energized by the research papers I was reading from the new discipline of neuroscience and stunned to learn that most teachers and trainers had never even heard the word, let alone started to...
by Margie Meacham | Mar 14, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Hi Everyone! In my workshops I often talk about the power of story to draw the learner into the role of a character, seeing things through his or her eyes. Park Howell’s excellent podcast on this subject is worth another listen to remind you of how your brain...
by Margie Meacham | Mar 3, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
I recently wrote about “desire paths” and learning, linking a concept in architectural design to learning design. Basically, the idea is that our brains naturally look for the easiest path to our destination, so over time users of a system will show the designers...
by Margie Meacham | Mar 1, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
Lately things seem to be coming to me in bunches – ideas that appear at first to be distinctly different subjects are starting to merge inside my brain. The last time this happened I tried to make sense of machine learning, artificial intelligence and the Internet of...
by Margie Meacham | Feb 16, 2017 | LearningToGo Blog
If you want to get a sense of the vast amount of data exploding every second, visit Internet Live Stats and watch the numbers for Internet users, websites, emails and many other statistics updated in real time. But watch out – you might find yourself mesmerized by the...
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