2000 years of cultural migration mapped in just over a minute
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
How cool is this – 2000 years of culture mapped in just over a minute. Take a peak & marvel at the innovative way cultural movement is portrayed. Northeastern University researchers map 2,000 years of cultural migration: [The researchers] tracked the birth and death locations of more than 150,000 intellectuals (culled from several databases, including […]
Tags: culture, mapping, northeastern university
What is the question to this answer? Helen Keller
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
I LOVE this exercise. Talk about a tool to increase creativity, critical thinking & more. It could be used as an exercise to warm up for a workshop – e.g. a workshop on culture could simply be introduced by the word ‘culture’. It could be used as an informal assessment for a core concept, to […]
Tags: creativity, question
How preschoolers learn? Sounds like good adult ed to me
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
How preschoolers learn? Sounds like good adult ed to me. Thanks to good friend Jean DuPlessis for passing this on.
Tags: jean duplessis, learning, play
Take university courses online for free
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development, Uncategorized
I’m over the moon excited about designing four peace building & conflict resolution courses for the African Virtual University, so this blog post caught my attention from IFLscience – it’s a good review of MOOCs (massive open online courses), and give lots of links to examples. Check it out. Interested in the courses I’m designing? […]
Tags: afrian virtual university, IFLscience, online learning, university
I teach. Oh how I teach. You?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Love this image from Venspired, which I originally found on Instagram. Sums it up. ‘nuf said. You?
Tags: inspiration, training & development, venspired
Airplane Safety Talk a la Dr. Seuss
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Humor & comedy, Training & development
If you’ve ever been an airplane you’ll have, no doubt, sat through the requisite safety talk. The one you’re supposed to pay attention to. After all, what could be more important than knowing how to get out of the plane in an emergency? Plenty. Folks ignore the safety talk plenty. Enter creative ways to get […]
Tags: creativity, Dr. Seuss, safety, training & development
Why a Neuroscientist Lied to Her Kids – Mental Time Travel vis a vis Full Body Brain Memories
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
The following article was originally published in the Washington Post & written by Dr. Kelly Lambert. No link to the article is provided as the article has been taken down, but the previous link is to Dr. Lambert’s website. As I look out the window to my sunny backyard & leafy avocado & banana trees, […]
Tags: brain development, Dr Kelly Lambert, learning & development, memories, neuroscience
Finding inspiration for reading for the love & learning of it
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Welcome to my office. That’s Galito (my kid’s cat) keeping guard of my library. My love of books often has me salivating over & buying books faster than I can read them. So based on my annual to do, to done, to’odle, I sought inspiration for getting the printed matter into my gray matter. I […]
Tags: brain based learning, brain development, peter levine, reading, trauma
A new twist on having a ‘bun in the oven’
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy, Training & development
What does a bun in the oven mean to you? As someone who graduated, got engaged, got married, got pregnant & gave birth without the power of the internet behind me, I find it fascinating how people are using technology to share, teach, delight, surprise & confound… For those of us in learning & development, […]
Tags: creativity, humour
Knowledge ‘vrs’ Experiene (all wrapped up in 1 picture)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Juicy goodness here. Does knowledge lead the way to connecting the dots? Could you connect the dots without knowledge? What does experience look like without knowledge?
Tags: experience, knowledge