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Thursday, January 28, 2010
After all, we know that humans can’t multitask, so when we hear about high school students who are on the computer and listening to music and watching TV while they do their homework, it’s natural to think they simply aren’t paying attention to anything. We’ve been talking all month about Web 2.0 - but we haven’t talked all that much about social media. Gayle is out in Vegas right now, speaking at Tech Knowledge (go Gayle!).
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
We're addressing people who are multitasking. These are liveblogged notes from the ELearning Guild online forum on Building Effective Interactivity . If you're not a member yet, please enrol -- the benefits are tremendous. I
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The report is based on a survey conducted between October 2008 and May 2009 among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18, including a self-selected subsample of 702 respondents who completed seven-day media use diaries, which were used to calculate multitasking proportions.' Here are 10 stand-out findings from the report: Youth aged 8 - 18 spend more than 7.5hrs a day (equivalent of a work day) using a smart phone, computer, tv or other electronic device - 7 days a week Less than five years ago the above number was less than 6.5hrs per day The
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
As way of background for this month's big question - , I went to eLearning Learning and looked up Multitasking . But the basic gist is that Multitasking Generally is Bad for Work and Learning Clive Shepherd - A challenge to the multitask assumption tells us: According to work conducted at Stanford University and reported by Constance Holden in Science NOW Daily News under the heading Multitasking muddles the mind , "cognitive performance declines when people try to pay attention to many media channels at once." Found some great posts.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
A few random reactions and a few of the nuggets I've pulled out from the discussion. 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 Some great responses to this month's big question New Presenter and Learner Methods and Skills . I'm learning a lot from the posts.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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.” You could usually rely on a fully attentive audience face-to-face while bemoaning the ease with which multitasking occurs online. I’ve finally got round to reading Click , Bill Tancer’s brilliant expose of our secret lives as revealed through our online searches.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Tags: doodling multitasking notetaking Memor A nice little Doodle by Lee. This behaviour is undoubtedly not limited to toddlers - just watch an episode of The Apprentice or spend some time in any large organisation. Interestingly, the act of doodling (like the example above, but of course they come in all shapes and sizes and colours), often perceived as a sign of boredom and disengagement, is actually a highly effective means of enhancing
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
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. As far as participants are concerned, multitasking is a benefit of the webinar format, not a drawback. Sounds like a good name for a spy film, probably starring someone like Michael Caine, and with a plot so intricate that you never really know which side each character is on – who’s a friend and who’s an enemy.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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. Your webinar audience might think that they're multitasking, but they're not. Well, on the basis of recent research, I think it's fair to challenge that assumption. Humans can't multitask, they can only switch from task to task, and they do this relatively poorly.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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. I Some people can task switch rapidly. Others prefer to focus on one element at a time.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The question was prompted to some extent by my post Multitasking is now every presenter’s problem , in which I put forward the notion that it wasn’t just webinar presenters who had to deal with their audience multitasking, this was now rife at face-to-face events as well. There were some great responses to the Big Question – I particularly liked the concept of Binge Thinking suggested by Ken Allen. m not going to rework the arguments here, but I would like to clarify my own thoughts and conclusions: Multitasking is an illusion – we are simply not capable of doing it.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The one consistent defense I hear when I suggest that multitasking doesn’t exist (i.e. that learners don’t actually multitask…they rapidly task switch, leaving observers with the impression they are managing multiple tools/attention streams) is some variation of “how do you explain my daughter (or son, grandchild) who is able to text, watch TV, and work on the computer at the same time?”. A report on multitasking (via Mark Bullen ) states “heavy 8221;. It’s difficult to accept research evidence in the face of personal observation.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Both your face-to-face and your online audience is likely multitasking. Clive Shepherd captured the problem as Multitasking is now every presenter’s problem. Hence, this month's big question is: New Presenter and Learner Methods & Skills? Related questions: What should we do as presenters in this multitasking world? In response to my recent post Narrowing Gap between Face-to-Face and Online Presentations , the comments were really fantastic, but got the discussion going in a different direction - and it is clear that a comment box is way too small for this discussion.
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