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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 3/26/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Although multitasking kids may be better prepared in some ways for today's frenzied workplace, many cognitive scientists are positively alarmed by the trend. Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective - Tony Karrer. Open, but not as usual - Economist. Are kids too plugged in? -

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Text-to-Speech Basics: What Is TTS and Who Uses It?

CourseArc

Multitaskers The shortcuts TTS can provide are endless—from reading recipes while you cook to dictating instruction manuals when assembling furniture. In fact, medical studies advise that exposure to light at night, particularly blue light from screens, has adverse health effects. Dharmesh Shah Keynote at INBOUND 2016 3.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking

Learning Visions

Monday, June 18, 2007 Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking From the Eide Neurolearning Blog: Voluntary Control of Attention - Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking There is a yin and yang effect between visual and auditory attention. Is multimedia the same as multitasking? I dont think the answer is to only show a visual, or only have audio.

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Social eLearning Design - Best of eLearning Learning

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Presentation Backchannel Multitasking - eLearning Technology , October 29, 2009. The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS - Upside Learning Blog , October 23, 2009. The Big Question: How should presenters address multitasking? User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated - The eLearning Coach , October 25, 2009.