{"id":18026,"date":"2015-06-03T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:48","slug":"first-gum-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/first-gum-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"First Gum Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3200\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3200\" class=\"wp-image-3200 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gum-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"gum\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of the Executive Leadership Institute participants, with gum.<\/p><\/div>\nThis year\u2019s Executive Leadership Institute became the first LERN event where participants were given and encouraged to chew gum.<br \/>\nWhile slightly tongue in cheek, new research shows that chewing gum improves both learning and test scores, according to Julie Coates, one of North America\u2019s foremost authorities on learning.<br \/>\nMore importantly, the premiere of gum at a LERN event marks an important turning point in our field, turning from a focus on the teacher or presenter to a focus on the learner or participant.<br \/>\nThat trend of becoming more learner-centered is just emerging, and will change the field of lifelong learning for the rest of the century.<br \/>\nLERN will be researching and featuring other techniques and strategies to engage and involve learners as they evolve.\u00a0 For example, LERN 2015 Annual Conference SuperStar presenter Jared Campbell will introduce several exciting new techniques in his fast moving energizing session \u201cMotivating Digital Natives,\u201d which will be held on the first day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/blog\/conference\/2015-lern-annual-conference-dec-2-5-new-orleans\/?__hssc=31434912.1.1433355539182&amp;__hstc=31434912.c9c79d28d89293f482dd004998cb0321.1430759595960.1433334550640.1433355539182.72&amp;hsCtaTracking=003d0ea5-423f-49cf-bf53-d659b6b496d4%7Ce6bab375-142f-4543-830b-d882d437f67f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans conference<\/a>, Dec. 3, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Executive Leadership Institute became the first LERN event where participants were given and encouraged to chew gum. While slightly tongue in cheek, new research shows that chewing gum improves both learning and test scores, according to Julie Coates, one of North America\u2019s foremost authorities on learning. More importantly, the premiere of gum at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18897,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions\/18897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}