SMART Learning for the Age of AI
A Potent Learning Engine
Your brain, with its 80 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, serves as a potent learning engine, ready to facilitate your growth and development.
Time to Upgrade your Brain’s Learning “Software”
Is your brain equipped with the latest learning software to tackle the demands of upskilling, re-skilling, and personal evolution in today’s dynamic work and life landscape? Draw on our award-winning adult learning expertise and get the benefit of insights from neuroscience, learning and development psychology, and years of leadership in corporate learning and development.
Your Brain Goes Through 7 Phases When You Deliberately Learn
Know how to turbocharge each brain learning phase:
1. Hear the Call – direct your attention
2. Create Future Pull – for a motivating vision
3. Search – find experiences for learning
4. Connect the Dots – expose patterns to integrate your learning
5. Mine for Gold – process information in your short term memory
6. Learn to Last – change neurons and their connections for future use
7. Transfer to Life – change habits and remove barriers to use
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Learning 4.0 is your fourth great brain update, building on what your were born with (1.0), what you learned about learning at school (2.0), and the ad hoc skills for meeting adult challenges (3.0). 4.0 is brain and adult development science-based. Ready to use to co-evolve yourself with technology and these uncertain times.
The Book
The best from brain science, developmental psychology, and adult learning – condensed into practical tips and tools.
Part 1: The New Learning Landscape
Part 2: Seven Practices of 4.0 Learners
Part 3: Learning as Love
Part 4: The Learning 4.0 Toolkit
Are you a Talent Development Professional?
Better learner skills mean greater program success.
Provide or recommend the book and/or app to everyone to upgrade learner power.
Boost Employee Learning Skills
Everyone’s HOW to Learn resource
Learner- Ability as Well as Learnability
Unleash Unstoppable Learners: A Guide for Learning Professionals
- Teach people HOW to learn WHILE they learn in your programs
- Insert learner-ability building into your existing or new designs, evaluations, and transfer support
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The Talent Professional’s Job is not just to provide resources and programs, but also to help people become more self-confident, self-managing, and self-developing
Pat McLagan
The Thought Leader Behind the App and Book
Pat McLagan is a recognized thought leader on adult and organizational learning, receiving top awards from the Association for Talent Development (formerly ASTD), the Instructional Systems Association, the Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. She is one of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development's Inspiring Minds for a Century.
A lifelong researcher and innovator for better self-directed and science-based, smarter learning and development, she was one of the first to write about and promote more self-driven learning as a key 21st Century meta-skill.
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Author, Consultant
Change Agent, Speaker,
Mentor, Thought Leader