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

SmartUp

You may have seen on big news outlets such as The Independent , Time Magazine , or the New York Times that our attention span has shrunk to less than that of a goldfish. Scientists and psychologists are bewildered by how this statistic came into circulation. Is that statement true though? . According to K.R. Divided Attention .

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Has the smartphone limited attention spans or increased access to knowledge?

Ed App

BBC Health investigated this claim and found it to be a statistical farce. . Before smartphones, people forgot new information at the same rates we do now (about 70% within 24 hours ). While we have access to more information than ever, we can only focus on one thing at a time (see: the myth of multitasking ). No, not really.

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Micro-Learning Through Social Media: Education on the Go

Beyond Campus Innovations

The ease of microlearning has become an effective way to train adult learners and “allows students to digest things quickly, multi-task between assignments and meetings, and finally, they retain the subject at hand better as it is a more digestible format altogether” (Gutierrez, 2018). . What should eLearning Companies be on the lookout for?