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18 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 11

Upside Learning

Seems like, the war between social networking sites is far from over. The last week saw Facebook announcing the launch of its first cell phone, followed by Twitter launching its own version of Facebook’s ‘mutual friends’. Research: Less Girl Game Time Down To Multitasking Behavior With Tech.

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5 Ways to Improve Medical Continuing Education Courses

EthosCE

Are you also dealing with limited resources, so you end up multitasking and spreading yourself thin? For example, 65% of people are visual learners, according to a study from the Social Science Research Network, so more course providers have incorporated video and interactive content into their online continuing education courses.

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10 Things the Motorola Xoom does Better than the iPad

mLearning Revolution

I now also have widgets for trending Apps in the Android Market, for all three of my emails accounts, for Google Books, YouTube videos, Facebook updates, Twitter mentions and Browser bookmarks. Multitasking. Not too bad but I still prefer the Xoom for multitasking. Very powerful stuff. The iPad has nothing comparable to this.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | October 2, 2020

Mike Taylor

The Myths of the Digital Native and the Multitasker. It then proceeds to present evidence that one of the alleged abilities of students in this generation, the ability to multitask, does not exist and that designing education that assumes the presence of this ability hinders rather than helps learning. Where You Can Find Me.

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How we spend our time in the UK

Clive on Learning

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.

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Engaging Millennials Through mLearning

Ed App

Their social media preferences are Facebook and Twitter while information is sourced predominately from online resources. Millennials are used to multitasking and, therefore, have very little for the average 6-minute eLearning courses. Millennials live in a world of networking. of the global population. Bite-sized learning.

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eLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat

Tony Karrer

That's multitasking! Social Bookmarking and Wikis and Blogs are a form of social networking I never said this, but several people pointed it out in the chat. I certainly talk about a big part of the value of blogs being building a network. Most of us blog to Learn and Network. how can more hear about participating?