Dr. Kuva Jacobs is the Founding Director of the Redpoint Consulting Firm and the creator of the LinkedIn Group Learning Myth Busters.

She helps to drive to create innovative learning solutions in the corporate space, where she contributes to a wide range of learning & development projects, across all stages of their lifecycle.

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🖐🏽 Key Takeaways:

Learning Styles is a myth and harmful because it puts learners into boxes. Instead consider context, environment, and the nature of the information you're trying to teach.

Be wary of nice round numbers in learning graphics like 'The Learning Pyramid.'

Learning science shows that we don't really "unlearn" anything. Rather, you take on new information and add it to your current understanding of a new topic. It's more like a Word document that has all of the edits, track changes, and comments.

When confronting someone about a learning myth, it's important to emphasize with that person. No one likes being attacked. Instead, get to the bottom of why that person uses that myth and show them research when appropriate.

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📚 Resources:

Check out the Learning Myth Busters group on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14108260/

You can follow and contact Dr. Kuva Jacobs on LinkedIn here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuvaj/

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🤔 About the Host

Kevin Alster leads the learning team at Synthesia focusing primarily on product education and client services.

With over a decade of experience in education and learning, he has moved from the classroom and into tech to help people create and communicate better through video.

He has been developing enterprise and branded learning solutions in organizations such as General Assembly, The School of The New York Times, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

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🧑🏽‍🏫 Check out the ⁠Synthesia Academy⁠ here: https://www.synthesia.io/academy
🗣 Or get in touch with me on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinalster