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Science Of The Brain: New Ways To Engage Adult Learners

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Q: What weighs three pounds, has more than 1,000 trillion connections and controls your annual meeting? A: Your attendee's human brain. This thinking muscle affects your conference success more than you realize. Yet, often we plan meetings and events without thinking about the impact of our meeting design on the attendee's brain. For example, talking heads, passive listeners, audience engagement, active participation or something in between? What is the best way to provide education at conference and events? Which juices the brain? Today's brain science has identified several critical strategies to consider during the conference planning process. Implementing these will create sizzle and substance for your brain-friendly conference.

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Science Of The Brain: New Ways To

Engage Adult Learners

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1. Compare & contrast information, education & learning.

2. Identify Six Brain-Friendly strategies for presentations.

3. Discuss how to apply these strategies to meetings and education.

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Roadways

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listeners’ brains We can’t pour info into

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Is there a difference between

education & information?

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A cellular process

Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize, 2000

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Teaches skills in critical thinking problem solving collaboration decision making evaluation analysis

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knowledge in long-term memory meaning and connects with existing working memory as the learner abstracts an active process that takes place in the

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knowledge in long-term memory meaning and connects with existing working memory as the learner abstracts an active process that takes place in the

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new info with knowledge in long-term memory

for making meaning & connecting must be given time

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2. Providing context & meaning-making 1. Attending to information, words & visuals

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4. Integrating into long-term memory 3. Connecting & comparing 2. Providing context & meaning-making 1. Attending to information, words & visuals

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Hear It or Learn It?

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Talking Head

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Talking Head

Passive Listener

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of Academy activities

1991 Berkley Study

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1991 Berkley Study

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Bligh, 2000

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Bligh, 2000

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People usually forget

90% of what they

learn in a class

within 30 days.

Majority of loss

occurs within

hours of class.

German psychologist &

memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Your brain can hold 5 pieces of information for

for 30 seconds.

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It must be repeated to move to working memory

or it disappears.

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The brain neuron is waiting for a repeat signal

of info or it resets.

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If repeated, it moves to working memory for 60

minutes or more.

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Talking increases retention

Talking builds relationships

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Talking elicits feedback

Talking enhances self-worth

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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1. Talking trumps listening.

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How do this impact conferences & education?

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The brain does not pay attention

to boring things

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Content should be chunked in

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minute segments

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Anchor 10 min segments with

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

Stories

Relevancy

Problems content solves

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10-20 minutes of content

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

then 10-20 minutes

discussion

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Tractor

Green

Apple

Zero

Weather

Pastel

Quickly

Ocean

Nicely

Countertop

Airplane

Jump

Laugh

Tall

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Group 1: determine number of

letters that have diagonal lines in

them and the number that do not.

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Group 2: Think about the meaning

of each word. Rate the word on a

scale of 1-10, 10 most like.

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Tractor

Green

Apple

Zero

Weather

Pastel

Quickly

Ocean

Nicely

Countertop

Airplane

Jump

Laugh

Tall

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Write down as many of the

words as you remember

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Tractor

Green

Apple

Zero

Weather

Pastel

Quickly

Ocean

Nicely

Countertop

Airplane

Jump

Laugh

Tall

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Meaning Trumps Content

Brain Friendly Strategy #3

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Meaning Trumps Content

Brain Friendly Strategy #3

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Fight

Flight

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1. Can I eat it?

2. Will it eat me?

3. Can I mate with it?

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Fighting

Feeding

Fleeing

Reproductive behavior

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Safety Trumps Learning Participant must feel safe & not threatened

Brain Friendly Strategy #4

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Meaning Trumps Content

Brain Friendly Strategy #3

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Brain Friendly Strategy #4

Safety Trumps Learning

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1. Chunking trumps info dump.

2. Meaning trumps content.

3. Safety trumps learning. 90

How do these impact conferences & education?

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Brain pays attention to patterns

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Brain pays attention to patterns

Former knowledge hooks content

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Patterns trump new information

Brain Friendly Strategy #5

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Meaning Trumps Content

Brain Friendly Strategy #3

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Brain Friendly Strategy #4

Safety Trumps Learning

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Patterns trump new information

Brain Friendly Strategy #5

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• Death by Bullets • Powerpointless presentations • Cognitive Overload • Too much text on a slide • White/light fonts on dark slides • Great way to lull audience to sleep • Does not stimulate the brain to learn • Go against brain-friendly strategies • Decreases learning

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• Death by Bullets • Powerpointless presentations • Cognitive Overload • Too much text on a slide • White/light fonts on dark slides • Great way to lull audience to sleep • Does not stimulate the brain to learn • Go against brain-friendly strategies • Decreases learning • Death by Bullets • Powerpointless presentations • Cognitive Overload • Too much text on a slide • White/light fonts on dark slides • Great way to lull audience to sleep • Does not stimulate the brain to learn • Go against brain-friendly strategies • Decreases learning • Death by Bullets

• Powerpointless presentations • Cognitive Overload • Too much text on a slide • White/light fonts on dark slides • Great way to lull audience to sleep • Does not stimulate the brain to learn • Go against brain-friendly strategies • Decreases learning • Death by Bullets • Powerpointless presentations • Cognitive Overload • Too much text on a slide • White/light fonts on dark slides • Great way to lull audience to sleep • Does not stimulate the brain to learn • Go against brain-friendly strategies • Decreases learning

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Images Trump Words Brain Friendly Strategy #6

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Vision trumps senses in retention & learning

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Pears

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Recognition doubles with pictures

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50% of brain processing devoted to visuals

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We see with our brains, not eyes

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Primarily oral, we recall

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Primarily visual, we recall

3x as much from listening

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Primarily oral & visual, we recall

6x as much from listening

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Meaning Trumps Content

Brain Friendly Strategy #3

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Brain Friendly Strategy #4

Safety Trumps Learning

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Patterns trump new information

Brain Friendly Strategy #5

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Images Trump Words Brain Friendly Strategy #6

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Answers trump data

Brain Friendly Strategy #7

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Answers trump data

Brain Friendly Strategy #7

Think of your content as answers to problems

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Take time to explain the

Brain Friendly Strategy #7

questions

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Your brain likes to solve problems

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Successfully solving problems

releases dopamine

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Brain & body flooded with

rush positive feelings

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Does the content

make attendees

think

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Talking Trumps Listening

Brain Friendly Strategy #1

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Chunking content trumps information dumps

Brain Friendly Strategy #2

10 minutes

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Meaning Trumps Content

Brain Friendly Strategy #3

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Brain Friendly Strategy #4

Safety Trumps Learning

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Patterns trump new information

Brain Friendly Strategy #5

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Images Trump Words Brain Friendly Strategy #6

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Answers trump data

Brain Friendly Strategy #7

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