If you ask any child what he or she learned in a typical day at school, you will rarely get a run down of the math problems that were completed, or the chapters of text devoured. If there was visual content available, that’s what the child will excitedly describe the awesome and cool things that she saw. It’s amazing how visual we humans are. Of course there is solid research that explains why that is. Visual imagery with context doesn’t have to be pre-processed, translated if you will, before it can be tagged and stored. It’s like working with raw data, no codex needed! Here is a great paper that explains The Benefits of “Multisensory” Learning.
This learning space is a place to explore the hows and whys of developing learning that incorporates all of the senses. As an Instructional Designer, I am obsessed with relieving much of the pain and frustration that has been associated with the “Old School” learning formats under which so many of us sweltered in our upbringing. To those that cluck their tongues and hiss that education is going to the dogs, I say, let the dogs have the past! Let’s make it fun, and exciting, and exhilarating to learn!
Keeping with that theme, you will find this site to be a place of discovery and clickability….. and maybe even a few words that haven’t made it into the dictionary as well.
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