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Multitasking: You’re Not as Productive as You Think

KnowledgeCity

Mobile technology enables us to be hyper-connected to the ever-expanding network of social and business worldwide. It enables us to multitask like never before. When we talk about multitasking, we are really talking about attention.” –Christine Rosen, The Myth of Multitasking. Are we really being that productive?

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Twitter’s Impact on Your Brain-Same as Bilingualism

Kapp Notes

Studies on infant brains have shown that knowledge retention is only possible when accompanied with personal interaction or activity, but this becomes even more important as people get older. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

TalentLMS

Multitasking with techno-stimulators: mobile phones, tablets, i-tunes and you get the drift. Visuals and auditory stimulation activates the brain to focus and process these information signals and make sense out of them. When you give your brain a chance to connect new knowledge with the prior experience, learning is “sedimented”.

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Five Ways to Use Brain Science to Become a Better Leader

CLO Magazine

It’s an exciting time for brain science. New insights and discoveries about how the brain works are being made every week, and a focus on neural leadership is forging the way. Social: Introvert? Our brains are predominantly social organs, so we need to bring them some level of socially driven interaction or goal.

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eLearning Gamification: How to Implement Gamification in Your Learning Strategy

eLearningMind

At ELM, we know that gamification training, when backed by an understanding of brain science , can be a powerful tool for inspiring learners to challenge themselves. At the heart of gamification is dopamine, which controls the pleasure center of our brains and affects our mood, memory, and thinking process. Social Learning.

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eLearning Gamification: How to Implement Gamification in Your Learning Strategy

eLearningMind

At ELM, we know that gamification training, when backed by an understanding of brain science, can be a powerful tool for inspiring learners to challenge themselves. At the heart of gamification is dopamine, which controls the pleasure center of our brains and affects our mood, memory, and thinking process. Social Learning.

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8 Reasons Why Most Online Corporate Training Fails

KnowledgeAnywhere

Through tools like Google and social media, we are able to instantly gather and learn new information at the tips of our fingers. It is clearly stated that a brain can't multitask. If you try multitasking your brain, your brain will end up blank. Why shouldn't our training be the same way?