One of the things I have learned from my study of learning science research is that using intuition to select the best learning solutions frequently fails. And in many cases, what they like is the opposite of what works best, which Ill explain later in the article).

A few people have recently asked me if I would tackle the issue of making learning easy and fun. He has things to do and not enough time to do them.

If you want to get a sense of the vast amount of data exploding every second, visit Internet Live Stats and watch the numbers for Internet users, websites, emails, and many other statistics updated in real time. But watch outyou might find yourself mesmerized by the rolling numbers and the dizzyingly rapid pace of expansion they represent.

It seems like everyone who has ever gone to school is an expert in how to teach and instruct. These principles are all based on research in cognitive science, research on master teachers, and research on cognitive supports for learning.

Visionary teacher and lifelong learner Pat McLagan views learning ability as software for processing daily life. And like all software, learning software require upgradesand regular reboots!

When people discuss how the human mind works, they often use computer terminology. This way of looking at the human mind perceives human thinking as information processing, much like how computers process information.

In a previous blog, I discussed the term digital natives. Some say we should train digital natives differently because young people have grown up with technology and the Internet in all parts of their lives.

Many learning practitioners find the topic of instructional feedback confusing, so I thought it might be a good topic review. To understand feedback, lets define what it is and what it should do.