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What Is the Difference between Audiobooks and Digital Books?

Kitaboo

Fast forward a few years to 2007, when Amazon launched the Kindle, and the rest is history. They come into their own for the following reasons: Multitasking: Audiobooks are the answer if you have a busy schedule and cannot find dedicated time to sit down and read. How are Audio Books the Better Choice?

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Your leaders’ brains were not made for this moment

CLO Magazine

Then, in 2007, Apple released the first smartphone, and we’ve been staring into its seductive screen ever since. Our brains are not equipped for multitasking, and our working memory capacities (and subsequent situational coping capacities) are exhausted by constant communication.

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Daily Bookmarks 08/12/2008

Experiencing eLearning

As a result, while N-Gens interact with the world through multimedia, online social networking, and routine multitasking, their professors tend to approach learning linearly, one task at a time, and as an individual activity that is centered largely around printed text (Hartman, Dzubian, and Brophy-Ellison 2007 ).

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Collecting Knowledge and Learning - 3/30/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic - New York Times. Several research reports, both recently published and not yet published, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking.

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

was considered a hot term in 2007 and 2008, but not in 2009. Several of my posts during the year were around this such as Learning from Others in the Room , Narrowing Gap between Face-to-Face and Online Presentations , Presentation Backchannel Multitasking , Twitter Conference Ideas. eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0 eLearning Technology.

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Embracing Mindfulness as a Corporate Leadership Strategy

ReadyTech

And the research is quite impressive: Mindfulness leads to better concentration, staying on task and multitasking. The company’s most popular mindfulness course, “ Search Inside Yourself ,” has been offered since 2007 and boasts thousands of alumni. Mindfulness improves working memory and reduces distracting thoughts.

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eLearning, mLearning, Tech Terms, Google, & iPods

Big Dog, Little Dog

Billion in 2007 - Ambient Insight. billion in 2007. In contrast, the demand in small companies doubled from 4.20% in the 2007-2012 forecast period to 8.51% in the 2008-2013 period. Instead, our brains are developing circuitry for online social networking and are adapting to a new multitasking technology culture.

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