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Still Confused About AI, Learn the Facts A-Bot Us!

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ENIAC, the first digital computer, was launched in 1945. Most of those instructions are dedicated to understanding what you type and translating it into a format the system can process. AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning. Thirty years later Stephen Wozniak designed Apple 1.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly. I most often have to hack the space.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

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I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

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and 47% of whom are female, spend a collective 3 billion hours per week on digital games! GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Social Impact Through Digital Games. In Education.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

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Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Adaptability. In order to take advantage of the full flexibility of eLearnings, you will need to make them available in a variety of different offerings.