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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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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?

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How Can We Shift the Way We Learn to Adapt to Our Changing Attention Span?

SmartUp

Alternating attention is the ability of mental flexibility that allows you to shift your focus of attention and move between tasks; alternating your attention back and forth between two different tasks that require the use of different areas of your brain. Divided Attention . Guess what?

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Task, Interrupted: How to Seamlessly Integrate Training into Work

Litmos

The human brain isn’t designed to handle context-switching. Even worse, depending on the amount of multitasking being done at the time, none of the tasks may be done well. This poses a challenge for learning and development leaders; the purpose of just-in-time training is to deliver learning exactly when employees need it.

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The Pros and Cons of Cross-Training Your Employees

Coreaxis

For example, Connie, a systems analyst, has gained newfound respect for Sadie, the company’s social media manager, after the former spent a few days covering for her ailing co-worker. Contrary to popular opinion, the human brain does not multitask well. Con: Loss of Focus.

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Let’s Focus a Little Better

CLO Magazine

I am assured that if my mind isn’t preoccupied with adulting — the stuff of paying bills, celebrating health insurance coverage and so forth — it’s darting between any number of digital disruptors: social media, email, music streaming apps, game apps, news apps, podcasts, text messages, bings, buzzes and everything in between.