I’m wondering if the beat and rhythm of music can be used to prime a brain ready for learning, supporting some success, at least, to engage with online educational content. There’s definitely something happening physiologically, and harnessing 40bpm might help our neurodivergent learners. https://overcast.fm/+2-B8eIUFc/19:47 #lxdesign #uxdesign #onlinelearning #neuroscience #neurodiversity #accessibility
Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration — Huberman Lab

In this episode, I provide a list of behavioral, nutritional, and supplement-based tools you can use to improve your ability to get into a focused state to do mental or physical work. I explain science-supported strategies for transitioning into focus, maintaining focus during the work bout, and exiting the focus session, which is also critical, including decompression/defocusing tools. I explain when and how to use: binaural beats, caffeine, deliberate cold exposure, the pros and cons of working in fasted vs. fed states, and supplements and foods that enhance dopamine, epinephrine (i.e., adrenaline) and acetylcholine to promote optimal focus. Also, I explain how short behavioral practices, such as meditation and visual gaze training, will benefit your ability to focus over the long term. As deep focus is crucial to significantly improve cognitive or physical performance in any realm, this episode should be useful to anyone. By the end, you’ll have an essential toolkit of science-supported, low- to zero-cost…

Excellent, ChatGPT rolling out functionality to turn off certain chats so you can control what trains your tool.

Definitely don’t want my birthday speech drafts training my learning design or user research tool.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt #ai #lxdesign

New ways to manage your data in ChatGPT

ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history, allowing you to choose which conversations can be used to train our models.

Thinking about making the move into #learningdesign? Here’s a career switch story in SMH with a mention of our own Director of Technology, Will Calvert.

I love #lxdesign these reasons:

- it’s project-based so it is versatile, changing and you work with many different teams
- it’s creative; you get to design a new experience and come up with new ways of presenting information or setting challenges for a learner
- it’s science-based; there is an underlying, actually multiple sciences underlying the work of a learning designer
- it’s versatile; each course you design is on a different topic, you range through many disciplines and you get to meet and collabore with the experts in that field
- it’s meaningful; the products, experiences and services we design have the ability to contribute to life-changing learning journeys for our learners and students
- it’s a design discipline; you need to have a design toolbox and continually evolve it in order to solve problems
- it’s multi-faceted; you have to combine all the areas above to come to a good outcome
- it’s evolving; I’ve worked in it since 1999 and in those 24 years (twenty-four?!) the innovation has accelerated each year. Not just in technology, but also in approaches, adoption and research.

Hit me up if you are thinking about this switch.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/career-switch-brings-creative-approach-to-science-of-learning-20230117-p5cd7j.html

Career switch brings creative approach to science of learning

Learning designers are in demand as the edtech sector grows.

The Sydney Morning Herald
@transformassess hey hey! Welcome to the toot space!! #lxdesign #learningdesign #eddesign
@katiedigc @gamerlearner @timklapdor and a few others are looking at setting up our own mastodon instance so we can be “real community” again, with perhaps some additional benefits. So yes please add to the doc. #eddesign #lxdesign
Reading: My routine as Design Lead #lxdesign #uxdesign https://link.medium.com/cnrlRCTYvub