Geschreven door Marijn de Geus | November 09, 2016
The popularity of brain learning creates increasingly more translations of findings in neuro science into perspectives on learning and development, specifically concerning communication skills. We have already described how the six brain principles that were defined by the BCL Institute are being used in online training programs. How about adding another five?
António Damásio wrote about the relationship between brain, body and mind as early as 1994, in ‘Descartes’ error’. In this century, David A. Sousa and John Medina translated this into perspectives on learning and development. Next to the six principles of brain learning we have previously mentioned, we can extract another five ways from their findings that make your training program more effective!
1. Brain learning together through mirror neurons
As humans, we have been equipped with a social interaction system that allows us to learn by repeating what we observe. Even though we lose up to 30,000 neurons simply by getting older, we can make hundreds of thousands of new synaptic connections by learning and by strengthening that what we have learned. When we see someone doing something, mirror neurons make sure the same neurons are activated as when we’re doing it ourselves. Exemplary behavior is therefore one of the strongest learning interventions: selectively imitating what you think is successful behavior, on a subconscious level, but also on a conscious level. This means that contact with other participants is very important: only then you can imitate how someone else is doing something. The same goes for online training: video role plays contain example videos and recordings can be shared with other trainees.
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