by Margie Meacham | Jun 9, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
Introduction Ancient peoples invented colorful stories about powerful gods expressing themselves through the physical world. They were trying to make sense of their world, using the only tools available at the time. Similarly over the years, educators have developed...
by Margie Meacham | Apr 16, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
I’ve written before on this blog about the role of the human brain to ensure survival. Man is a social animal, so a good part of our survival programming is focused on getting along well with other humans. In studies watching people think about future interactions...
by Margie Meacham | Mar 15, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog, Publications
If you had the chance to be with DaVinci, Galileo or Curie at their greatest moment of discovery, would you take it? If you said “yes,” then you’re in luck. The human race is embarking on a great adventure; we are discovering how the brain works by watching it in the...
by Margie Meacham | Jan 13, 2015 | LearningToGo Blog
Lately I’ve been catching myself saying things that make me sound like an old woman: “She looks way too young to be tending bar.” “He’s so immature. Were we like that at his age?” “When are these kids going to grow up and leave the house?” I recently was heartened to...
by Margie Meacham | Oct 16, 2014 | LearningToGo Blog
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin In the area of adult learning, Ben Franklin turns out to be quite prescient. If you think that emotions have no place in training or should be relegated to “soft” skills,...
by Margie Meacham | Sep 10, 2014 | LearningToGo Blog
I sometimes like to think of the training profession as going through an evolution similar to the path taken by the medical science more than 300 years ago. Before we knew about microbes and viruses, we knew that certain diseases affected the human body. Through trial...
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