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Multitasking

Tony Karrer

As way of background for this month's big question - , I went to eLearning Learning and looked up Multitasking. " Also disconcerting, he notes, is that "people who chronically multitask believe they're good at it." " Will Thalheimer - Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either! Found some great posts.

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Learn how Emilia enhanced key soft skills to grow in her career

Coursera

During my time at TMU, I took an internship as a Music Office Intern for the City of Toronto. The title of my internship is a bit misleading as I wasn’t sitting around listening to music all day. Through my internship, I discovered my love for being a coordinator, project manager, and liaison as I naturally had an ability to multitask.

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How to Combat the “Hey Look! A Squirrel!” Syndrome

Jigsaw Interactive

We all see students in television shows and movies sitting in neat little rows, listening attentively to the teacher, and answering questions. Studies have shown that young children ages 4 to 9 have an attention span of only 8-27 minutes, ages 10-13 of only 20-39 minutes, and ages 14-18 of only 28-54 minutes. A Squirrel!”

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | April 29, 2022

Mike Taylor

Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Increasingly, we demand that our attentional system try to focus on several things at once, something that it was not evolved to do. Most Popular Music For Focusing. Most Popular Music For Focusing. The History of Cognitive Load.

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A challenge to the multitask assumption

Clive on Learning

A few weeks ago I wrote on the Onlignment blog about The multitask assumption. By this I meant the assumption you can safely make with any webinar that a good proportion of the audience is multitasking - you know, checking emails, answering the phone, listening to music, finishing off a report, and so on.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 24, 2019

Mike Taylor

What I’m Listening to: Last week’s college music playlist has had me stuck on the 80’s alternative music that was a soundtrack of my days at Miami University. After all, if we provide both the written and the spoken words at the same time, we force people to multitask and us humans just can’t do that. Here are this week’s finds.

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Ending the Vicious Cycle – Tips for Improving Focus in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

Today’s workforce spends its days multitasking with smartphones in hand, headphones in ears, texting while driving, talking on the phone and checking email. Moreover, it’s a fact that most people are not as efficient at multitasking as they think they are, as evidenced by the number of accidents caused by texting and driving.

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