ASTD-Lincoln Presents:
Truly Transformative Learning
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As learning professionals, we help learners understand complex tasks or knowledge. And we create experiences to ensure it is easy to remember and apply back on the job. Creating understanding and memory are at the heart of learning and take a learning event from merely an information dump to a transformative experience. If understanding and memory are at the heart of learning, the brain and knowing how it works need to be at the center of what we do.
In this presentation,Jonathan Halls will draw from the ASTD Infoline (May 2014) Memory & Cognition to discuss how the brain creates understanding, how it remembers it, and what we can do to make this process more efficient. As much as he will draw from current research into neuroscience, he will also draw on long-established theories in cognitive psychology and some of the principles of adult learning that have long underpinned our profession.
In this session Halls will look at the role of mental models, how to use storytelling to unlock learning, using rehearsal and exploration to strengthen new memories, and the role of emotion and stress in learning. He will discuss techniques that make your software training, skills training, and psychomotor training more powerful based on how the brain works. This presentation is addressed from the perspective of a practitioner and how we can make our learning sessions more powerful.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how information is received and processed by the brain according to the information processing model.
- Explain the role of mental models in creating meaning (and understanding knowledge).
- Explain how memories and meaning are formed as networks of neurons.
- Discuss the physiological factors of learning and how to influence these in the seminar room or webinar.
- Discuss the role of the limbic system in terms of how its response can inhibit learning and what we need to do to avoid learning shut-down.
- Discuss techniques based on brain research that make software training more effective.
- Discuss techniques based on brain research to make soft skills training more transformative.
- Explain how to apply brain theory to psychomotor skills.
Meet Your Facilitator:
Jonathan Halls is an author, trainer and coach. He wrote Rapid Video Development for Trainers(ASTD Press 2012) and was a contributing author to Speak More(River Grove Books 2012) and ASTD Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Training & Development 2ndEdition (ASTD Press 2014). He is author of the ASTD Infoline, Memory & Cognition in Learning (ASTD Press 2014). Jonathan has written numerous articles for T&D Magazine over the years, including Be a Media Production Pro (March 2014) and he's been a guest blogger on ASTD’s website. He is on the BEST Awards Review panel for best learning organizations. Jonathan is Principal of Jonathan Halls & Associates and is on the faculty at George Washington University. He is part of the faculty that facilitates ASTD’s Master Trainer Certificate.
Where:
Jack J. Huck Continuing Education Center
301 S. 68th St. Place, Room 302, Lincoln, NE 68510
When:
Thursday, September 11, 2014
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