People - Training
Computer Assisted Learning
People - Training
Computer Assisted Learning
Make sure all are listening. Wait until you have their attention - you do not usually need to say anything just look at the student not paying attention - the class will usually pull them up.
Fact 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift" for the birds that follow. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock add 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.
Lesson: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the trust of one another.
Fact 2: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.
Lesson: If we have as much sense as a goose we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others.
Fact 3: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies to the point position.
Lesson: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing the leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent on each other skills, capabilities and unique arrangements of gifts talents or resources.
Fact 4: The geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up with their speed.
Lesson: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. In groups where there is encouragement, production is much greater. Individual empowerment results from quality honking.
Fact 5: When a goose gets sick, wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it. They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again. Then, they launch out with another formation or catch up with the flock.
Lesson: If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.
Current research shows we use only about 4% of our brain power.
Nuerons
* 12,00 - 15,000 million nerve cells in adult human brain (3 times earths entire population)
* Five weeks after conception and nuroblasts (embronic cells that become neurons) are added at the rate of several thousand per minute.
* At Twelve weeks neuroblasts being added at 2,000 per second!
* Brain development for girls at age 11 is up to twice that of boys (at 15 the converse is true)
Five pre-historic landmarks;
Walking
Increased manual dexterity
Tool-making
Speech - enables us to pass on advice so that we don't have to have an experience to
remember it.
Writing
Left Brain/Right Brain
Left Brain - language, mathematical formula, logic, numbers, sequence, linearity, analysis, words of a song
Right Brain - forms and patterns, spatial manipulation, rhythm and
musical appreciation, images/pictures, imagination, daydreaming, dimension, tune of a
song. Also attributed to it are conceptual thoughts (love, loyalty, beauty)
* Linked by network of up to 300 million fibres!
It appears the better the connection between the two halves the better the learning.
Does mental ability decline with age?
Almost certainly not - the body deteriorates. eg. slower oxygen supply.
Use it or lose it?
Research indicates constant stimuli improves mental ability.
Genius is more made than born
Many cases of parents training prodigies!
Brain waves
4 main frequencies
beta - conscious mind - logical thought, analysis and action. You are wide awake and alert, figuring out complex problems, talking speaking and doing
alpha - relaxation and meditation - daydreaming. Relaxed alertness facilitating inspiration, fast assimilation of facts, heightened memory. Allows you to reach your sub-conscious
Theta - deep meditation. the twilight zone associated with high creativity, high suggestibility, and flashes of inspiration. Dominant during ages 2-5
Delta - deep dreamless sleep
To show that software is a set of instructions and that the computer follows them to the letter, ask one student to direct another from one chair to another. A third student writes the instructions on the board.
After the exercise is competed ask the student that gave the instructions if they would be able to follow the written instructions with a blind-fold on!
It is important to Deprogramme the participants after the role play.
[Rev 7/8/98] © 1996 V/2-Com (Verhaart), P O Box 8415, Havelock North, New Zealand.
