How to Have a Healthier Mind
A report in the peer-reviewed journal, Ageing Research Reviews, revealed the key role of a purpose in life for cognitive health, and for mitigating dementia and depression (Bell et al. 2022). The authors suggest purpose and meaning may protect [...]
Have a Growth Mindset and Raise Your IQ
Do you and your company have a Fixed or Growth Mindset? Is your intelligence fixed or changeable? A Fixed Mindset believes that intelligence is fixed and defined by your genes. A Growth Mindset believes that your intelligence is unknown and [...]
Interleave and Learn Better
"Another important technique for broadening your sets of links is to interleave your studies. Interleaving helps you not only learn the concepts you’re studying, but also understand the differences between them." "Interleaving means varying or mixing different concepts. It is [...]
How Will AI Affect the Commercial Cleaning Industry: Now and In the Future?
In the USA Although the jury is still out, AI is likely to have a major impact on the commercial cleaning industry, bringing about advancements and changes in various aspects of the sector. Here are some ways in which [...]
How is Your SIS?
SIS stands for Stakeholder Information System, a process by which you gather and use information from all the stakeholders of your cleaning. These include: 1. People doing the cleaning. 2. People who work, learn or live in the cleaned [...]
What is a Power Learning Panel?
Since the term "flashcard" is associated with how children learn, we will be calling our study tool a Power Learning Panel (PLP) to enable adult learning through text, audio, video, and interactive elements (such as downloads and links). PLPs help [...]
Can You Explain It to a Fifth Grader?
Richard Feynman, the late physicist who received a Nobel Prize for his work in quantum physics, made a contribution to learning by asking fellow scientists to explain concepts in simple words to test their own grasp of [...]
Why Recite What You Read?
Looking away and reciting what is read from memory has benefits established many years ago. Per the book Make It Stick: A large-scale research program published findings in 1917 showing that "children in grades 3, 5, 6, and 8 studied [...]
Testing — Dipstick versus Learning Tool
"There are few surer ways to raise the hackles of many students and educators than talking about testing. The growing focus over recent years on standardized assessment, in particular, has turned testing into a lightning rod for frustration over [...]
Adding “Desirable Difficulty”
We are adding “Desirable Difficulty” to IHC lessons and blog posts to increase retention. Psychologists Elizabeth and Robert Bjork – scientists that research human memory – coined the term “Desirable difficulty” to note the value of retrieval effort, struggle [...]