Blood Flow and Learning
Did you know that when you sit down for more than 20 minutes your blood pools in your behind and feet?
If you get up and move around your blood recirculates, and inside a minute, your brain gets a hit of about 15% more blood. This helps you think.
So to learn better, we should get out of the seat and onto our feet...which is not necessarily good news for e-learning, which often requires physical inactivity in front of a PC.
I haven't seen any e-learning that incorporates physical movement into the learning experience (send me links if you know of anything!), but it's something I'd love to try out...particularly using mobile technologies.
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hello Michelle
We actually incorporate 'activity' in our courses. Most of our students are health professionals, so they immediately see the benefit as well. But ofcourse, you can't see whether they really do it :-)
You could make capturing your student's activity on webcam part of their assessment :)
I had an interesting email from an e-learning specialist who was talking about the potential of using nintendo Wii in e-learning - this would give a learner a full-body work-out as they learn.
Although, it does all sound like a lot of effort...
Makes sense and often spend my days walking around, coming back to a white board / PC to write some more ideas or content.
I've not seen anything yet that actively encourages this that is eLearning based, apart from generally chunking up content effectively. But nothing that makes suggestions about leaving your desk....Any ideas on what that might even look like?
Do you have a source for this notion? If it's true it has some profound implications and not just for e-learning?
I have a source - I read it in 'how the brain learns' by David Sousa. I'll give you a proper citation when I get the book back.
your DUMB, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocyte these are what make you think you fool, get your facts straight before you open your retard mouth.