Brilliant presentation derived from the Brain Rules by John Medina, lots here for educators to think about. The book hasn’t been released in the U.K., but can be preordered on Amazon, the website has a great wealth of information.

Just playing with a new web tool called MyStudiyo, it allows you to produce multiple choice quizzes that can be embedded into blogs and web pages, you can also provide a link to the quiz on the website. Very useful because it allows you to monitor the results of answers, so you can target revision. Users, in this case students, can also register, so you can judge an individual’s strengths and weaknesses. I’ve put together a simple example below.

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