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How Practicing Mindfulness in the Workplace Can Ease Stress and Improve Productivity

KnowledgeCity

When introducing mindfulness to employees, especially in fast-paced environments, they may push back on the idea with opinions like, “My job requires multitasking, I don’t have time for this,” or, “I actually thrive with a little bit of stress and chaos when I’m working.”. However, workplace stress is not a positive development.

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Virtual learning after the pandemic

CLO Magazine

The challenging issue in L&D is the accountability for showing value. Multitasking. Though learning providers, expert designers and skilled facilitators have tackled this issue feverishly, rampant multitasking remains a huge challenge. We know from the research that multitasking inhibits learning.

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Metacognition in 10 points

KnowledgeOne

It is sometimes associated with the idea of “learning to learn,” but it is more accurately summarized as a set of “cognitions about our cognitions” or “knowing our own cognitive processes.” Are we really good at multitasking? Neuroscience: learning in 4 steps. Stress and memory.

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SOLUTIONING IMPLICATIONS OF HEGEMONY

Learnnovators

Also, when it comes to the hullabaloo over ‘new age’ teaching because of younger age learners being included in the audience, the claims made about multitasking and learning preferences of digital natives vs. digital immigrants are simply mythical. For instance, CAPTCHAs are commonly and widely used – and yet there are basic usability issues.

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Artificial Intelligence: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

AI components: training; AI refinement; data; AI result; algorithm A) Ingredients B) Recipe C) Mixing and baking D) A great cake E) Improvement CORRECT ANSWER The correct associations are as follows: A) Ingredients (data): Just as you need ingredients to bake a cake, AI needs data, lots of data… like images, text, numbers, etc.

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Don’t Try to Do So Many Things At Once

CLO Magazine

Employee attempts to multitask are putting a serious damper on their performance. Digital Third Coast Content Manager Andy Kerns defined multitasking as the act of switching back and forth between multiple tasks — different from what many people believe the behavior to be: literally completing multiple tasks on a to-do list simultaneously.

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Brain, Learning and Neuroscience: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

Are we really good at multitasking? For each statement, find the duration associated with it. In short, the little human beings have an excellent “learning algorithm”, which means that by the age of 3, they can associate symbols – especially numbers – with objects and thus begin to do mathematics.

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