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How to Navigate Social Media (and Avoid Information Overload)

Rapid eLearning

When I was younger, I took great pride in not listening to mainstream music. Back then we didn’t have the internet to find and listen to music. As a wise man one said, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Social media technology opens the door to a lot of helpful information and helps you build a network of like-minded peers.

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How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives - Tip #162

Vignettes Learning

According to Dr. Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. Story Impacts Learning and Performance: Monogatari Press.

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Letting Go of the Need to Know Everything: Use Context Setting Learning Objectives

Vignettes Learning

Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. Every hour, YouTube uploads 6,000 hours of video content. It's just impossible to keep up.