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8 Must-Read Neurolearning™ Books

eLearningMind

And she would know: While teaching at Duke, she persuaded the university to give the entire freshman class of 2003 iPods. By probing our daily lives for clues, Medina explains how everything from stress, sleep, and even multitasking affects the brain. Its author Cathy Davidson’s hypothesis that “if you build it, they will come.” “It”

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

A significant body of work has arisen around the Digital Natives and Immigrants theory, including descriptions of younger students as ‘the Net Generation’ (Tapscott, 1998), ‘Screenagers’ (Rushkoff, 1996), ‘Born Digital’ (Palfrey and Gasser, 2008), ‘Millennials’ (Oblinger, 2003), and ‘Homo Zappiens’ (Veen and Vrakking, 2006). Kennedy, G.,

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Theories for the digital age: The digital natives discourse

Learning with e's

A significant body of work has arisen around the Digital Natives and Immigrants theory, including descriptions of younger students as ‘the Net Generation’ (Tapscott, 1998), ‘Screenagers’ (Rushkoff, 1996), ‘Born Digital’ (Palfrey and Gasser, 2008), ‘Millennials’ (Oblinger, 2003), and ‘Homo Zappiens’ (Veen and Vrakking, 2006). Kennedy, G.,

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Kevin Bruny: Man of the People

CLO Magazine

In 2003, he was appointed to the county’s newly created CLO position, and became director for the county’s Center for Organizational Excellence. Chesterfield is also experimenting with mobile learning, helping employees transition with online resources such as “iPhone Orientation: Multitasking on the iPhone.”

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8 Proven Tips for Optimal Learning

KnowledgeOne

” — Are we really good at multitasking? Furthermore, while we once believed that our brains could juggle several tasks simultaneously, science has disproved this idea (see Are we really good at multitasking? Are we really good at multitasking? These researchers calculated that it takes at least 0.25 Attention, in numbers.

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10Q: Cathy N. Davidson

Learning with e's

We said if they came up with new learning uses for what was in 2003 a "music-listening device," and if they could convince a prof to change a syllabus to include this new learning application in the course, then we would give a free iPod to the professor and every student in that class. Of course we knew they would be. So we challenged them.

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Online Training vs Instructor-Led Training: Which is More Effective?

Training Orchestra

Song, Koh, & Singleton (2003) : Learners expressed a lack of community with fellow students and instructors as well as confusion with online assignments and modules. Decreased multitasking between learning objectives within a course.