What that suggests, the researchers say, is that multi-task are more easily distracted by irrelevant information. The more we multi-task, the less we are able to focus properly on just one thing.
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BBC News - Is multi-tasking a myth? - 14 views
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A raft of studies has found that, actually, multi-tasking is a good way to do several things badly.
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We're not really multi-tasking. We're switching between tasks in an unfocused or clumsy way."
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BBC News - The science of optical illusions - 0 views
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Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings
Cognitive Extension and the Web - ECS EPrints Repository - 0 views
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Web resources and technologies are apt for potent forms of cognitive extension and incorporation, we may fully expect such resources and technologies to fundamentally transfigure the space of human thought and reason.
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Our analysis suggests that the Web is capable of participating in the external realization of (at least some) human mental states, but that further work is required to leverage its full potential.
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We conclude that the Web does constitute a potentially important element of the bio-technological matrix associated with mind and cognition; however, we suggest that further technological innovation is required to enable it to participate in the external realization of human mental states and processes.
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Cognitive Extension and the Web Smart, P. R., Engelbrecht, P. C., Braines, D., Strub, M. and Hendler, J. A. (2009) Cognitive Extension and the Web. In: Web Science Conference: Society On-Line, 18th-20th March 2009, Athens, Greece.
Facebook, MySpace 'harming kids' brains' | News | News.com.au - 0 views
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Dear Baronnes - don't wonder out loud -- your prejudices are irresponsible. Do research first, then advise. I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf," she told the UK Parliament.
Scientists extract images directly from brain ::: Pink Tentacle - 0 views
BLC Conference (November Learning) - 0 views
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Get ready to have your brain tickled with ideas from around the world. The 2009 Building Learning Communities Conference is designed to have an immediate and long range impact on improving teaching and learning. What first started as a 'jam session' of ideas between friends and education colleagues has grown into something truly special. Each year at BLC, we welcome representatives from around the world along with some of the most prestigious leaders in the field of education technology. Our conference program features hands-on pre-conference workshops, keynotes and over 90 main session workshops.
http://mindmedia.com - 0 views
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Find out how you learn by taking this brain test.
Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt or Die Off in O... - 0 views
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The definition of a lecture has become the process in which the notes of the teacher go to the notes of the student without going through the brains of either.
changelearning.ca - 0 views
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"Find out about key issues in education, learning, human development and what we really know about how our brains are shaped by evolution, genetics and experience. Explore what motivates learning, what encourages creative thinking and how home, school and community can create the best opportunities for meaningful learning."
Teachley's Believe It or Not! - 0 views
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Talking Brain
Social Media's Effect on Learning - 0 views
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Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.
Learning, Memory and the Brain: A Primer | Open Culture - 24 views
Fuel the Brain | Teacher's Guides - 56 views
How Technology Wires the Learning Brain | MindShift - 52 views
Gupta: Cell phones, brain tumors and a wired earpiece - The Chart - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views
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Thought this is a good idea.
Will Smartphones And iPads Mush My Toddler's Brain? : Shots - Health Blog : NPR - 33 views
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The concern that we have is it's distracting to the parent, so the parent is talking less to the child, there's less parent-child conversation,
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This may be the biggest concern in all of this... the growing absence of the parent.
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Making as Problem Based Learning - 18 views
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Recently many of our Year Six students have been involved in projects that require them to utilise the brain of a maker. Facing challenges involving the exploration of how everyday objects are manufactured and while responding to their 'Genius Hour' ambitions they are facing a new set of problems and discovering the joy that comes from solving these with their hands as much as their brains.
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goodby 2015 welcome 2016 to all friends
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