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Thursday, August 26, 2010
But by multitasking - effectively using two or more devices at once - the survey found that young adults were able to squeeze the equivalent of nine hours 32 minutes worth of consumption into that time.” Before getting carried away, it is important to realise that there are very real doubts about whether multitasking is actually possible.
 
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Encourage it and make sure the moderator and/or presenter weave it into the session – see Presentation Backchannel Multitasking. I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. Assign people into roles.
 
Monday, July 26, 2010
In fact, one of the things I like most about it is the way it forces you to be focussed, because although background multitasking is on its way you can only ever be in one app at a time so there’s far less opportunity for distraction. Now all I take is the iPad. Image Source: Apple UK.
 

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As way of background for this month's big question - , I went to eLearning Learning and looked up Multitasking. quot; Also disconcerting, he notes, is that "people who chronically multitask believe they're good at it." quot; Will Thalheimer - Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either! Found some great posts.
was interested in Bill’s observation about modern conference events: “With the pervasiveness of wireless hot spots and laptops that have built-in wireless capability, conference audiences have turned keynotes into multitasking events, half-listening to presentations while simultaneously answering email and browsing the web.&#.
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Caveats to Multitasking is Generally Bad for Work and Learning See my post on Multitasking for a summary of this. Or Clive Shepherd's How should presenters address multitasking? simple statement: Multitasking is an illusion – we are simply not capable of doing it. Multitasking Doodling and Notetaking are good.
The multitask assumption. So what is the multitask assumption? It’s 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. But are these people your enemies?
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.
Multitasking has gotten bad publicity recently. personally don’t think I multitask – I task switch. However, this article – why studies about multitasking Are missing the point – takes a different stance. Some people can task switch rapidly. Others prefer to focus on one element at a time.
The one consistent defense I hear when I suggest that multitasking doesn’t exist (i.e. report on multitasking (via Mark Bullen ) states “heavy media multitaskers performed worse on a test of task-switching ability, likely due to reduced ability to filter out interference from the irrelevant task set&#.
When multitasking, productivity decreases up to 40% and stress rises. Harvard Business Review’s Peter Bregman spent a week consciously not multitasking and writes about it. Hit the jump - How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking. Related posts: Multitasking or Attention Switching? His results? First, it was delightful.
As a general search on the web will reveal, there is quite a debate about multitasking and task switching. He needs to either multitask – to monitor the word streams and identify the words that occur in the set, or he must constantly switch focus from window to window. It’s based on simple word identification.