IT Meets Brain-Friendly Learning

Structured Walkthroughs…In its most useful form, it involves walking, in steps, through any programme and imagining you are the variable, asking yourself “what's happening now?” and “how can we improve it?” … By simply chunking this idea sideways you could use such a technique in course design or to critique a course…Walk through your course design as a participant, a trainer, and a client. In a Kaizen Blitz or Kaizen Workout we often get people to “become” a document moving around the system, in order to reduce process cycle-time and minimise unnecessary paper handling.

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Posted: July 3, 2007 at 1:58 pm | 805 Views | Email Post |
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It's not big but it IS clever!

Whilst researching my next computer (it's that time again) I looked at the IMAC from Apple, which I like because it's an attractive piece of design and therefore adds value when it's switched off. I was slightly disappointed to hear that the new ones have taken minimalism even further. There is no tower, just a flat screen, keyboard and mouse - that's it.

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Posted: May 7, 2007 at 6:16 am | 836 Views | Email Post |
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IT Meets Brain-Friendly Learning

For all you afficionados of brain-friendly learning - some IT training can be the very antithesis - “chalk and talk”, or Death by PowerPoint, and endless drills (aka “dentistry”)

However, there is a technique used by software companies that is an excellent training device in a wide range of settings called Structured Walkthroughs.

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Posted: April 19, 2007 at 4:53 am | 746 Views | Email Post |
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