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Using Decreasing Attention Spans to your Advantage

Origin Learning

Do you ever wonder why Facebook and Instagram are so popular? They feed the innate desire of all humans to be ‘liked’ to get that feeling of ‘fame’, which Facebook and Instagram offer as instant gratification through ‘likes’, ‘shares’, and ‘comments’. Social Learning and Personal Learning Networks.

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Social Media Learning: how to integrate intellectual, working and human capital…

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Well, references to this example and the “visual theft” relating to knowledge, wisdom, and skills have been made by evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel in a 2011 TED talk! Mark Pagel alludes to the map of the new world being created when he points to the picture showing the Facebook Friendship links cross-linking continents!