LamplarkOur next ‘Computers for Beginners’ course for Barnet residents starts this Monday 19th June. ➜ https://bit.ly/34zb3Zb
Wilfrid LI have been looking at part time courses to learn new skills but so many courses and jobs related to them are of no interest to me.
A lot of what's available is tech or AI related, or many of them are creative lessons that I think are mostly a sort of hobby thing for people in boring jobs.
Having an art degree the creative classes don't offer much except use of space and equipment.
Somehow I thought there would be more on offer from universities.
NotQuiteSuperhumanI recently came across a post about a library budget game used with library science students in the 1970s, and it sent me down a rabbit hole exploring the long history of games, simulations, and play in adult learning. Maybe serious gaming isn’t a new idea after all—perhaps we’re simply rediscovering something educators knew decades ago.
#AdultLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment #SeriousGaming #SystemsThinking #LibraryLife
Before Gamification: The Long History of Play in Adult Learning - Not Quite Superhuman
I recently came across a post about a library budget game used with library science students in the 1970s, and it sent me down a rabbit hole exploring the long history of games, simulations, and play in adult learning. Maybe serious gaming isn’t a new idea after all—perhaps we’re simply rediscovering something educators knew decades ago. #AdultLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment #SeriousGaming #SystemsThinking #LibraryLife
Psychotherapy Commission ACPEThis brief highlights how adult neural plasticity—specifically the abundance and potential activation of dormant, “silent” synapses—may inform understanding of learning, memory, and resilience across client populations. For mental health professionals, the finding underscores that the adult brain retains latent circuitry capable of rapid recruitment during new learning and experience, providing a framework for interpreting variability in therapeutic response and the pace of cognitive change.
Article Title: MIT scientists discover millions of “silent synapses” in the adult brain
Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260504211848.htm
Hashtags:
#neuroscience
#neuroplasticity
#adultlearning
#memoryformation
#synapses
#cognitiveflexibility
#brainhealth
#mentalwellness
#psychologyresearch
#therapeuticinsight
Adrian SegarSurprisingly, adults learn 90% of what they need to know to do their jobs informally — via experiential, social, and self-directed learning
#learning #AdultLearning #SocialLearning #70:20:10
Ipswich.co.uk [Unofficial]Grimwades adult education centre gets planning green light
Ipswich learning centre gets new Museum Street home
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.ipswich.co.uk/ipswich-learning-centre-gets-new-museum-street-home/
Biohacking PathwayTake the pressure off of yourself to facilitate or teach, and instead create situations that allow learning to occur.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2025/05/teaching-less-learning-more
Children and adults shouldn’t sit still in class. Yet we ignore established research when designing adult learning environments.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2017/04/sit-still-in-class
#meetings #EventDesign #movement #benefits #learning #AdultLearning #eventprofs
