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The Myth of Multitasking - Christine Rosen » The New Atlantis || SPRING 2008 - 0 views

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multitasking article attention psychology learning

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  • singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence
  • multitasking
  • parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible
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  • brain’s “multitasking hot spot
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      Kyle Murley on 10 Sep 09
       
      gosh this is great
  • 2005, the BBC reported on a research study, funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London
  • 2007 was Linda Stone’s notion of “continuous partial attention,
  • multitasking a “mythical activity in which people believe they can perform two or more tasks simultaneously.”
  • ADT is “purely a response to the hyperkinetic environment in which we live,”
  • “Attention Deficit Trait,”
  • workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task
  • “task-switching”—that is, multitasking behavior—the flow of blood increases to a region of the frontal cortex called Brodmann area 10
  • the last part of the brain to evolve, the most mysterious and exciting part
  • rather than a bottleneck in the brain, a process of “adaptive executive control” takes place, which “schedules task processes appropriately to obey instructions about their relative priorities and serial order,
  • with training, the brain can learn to task-switch more effectively
  • people who are not distracted show activity in the hippocampus, a region involved in storing and recalling information
  • people who are distracted or multitasking show activity in the striatum, a region of the brain involved in learning new skills
  • Media multitasking—that is, the simultaneous use of several different media, such as television, the Internet, video games, text messages, telephones, and e-mail—is clearly on the rise,
  • letters he wrote to his so
  • Kyle Murley on 10 Sep 09
     
    This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis
Kyle Murley

Bb Tip: Catching up with your reading! - Blackboard Discussion Board from CIT... - 1 views

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blackboard tutorials discussion board video

shared by Kyle Murley on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Do you find it is tedious to read a large number of discussion threads, needing multiple clicks to read each one, reply, and read more?  Let us introduce you to an efficient way to save you from clicking, clicking, clicking…
  • Watch a video demo recorded by Neal Caidin using Jing
Kyle Murley

The History and Evolution of Social Media | Webdesigner Depot - 0 views

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socialmedia web2.0 webdesigner technology evolution

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      Kyle Murley on 10 Oct 09
       
      Another site in the Lifestreaming category: http://mybloglog.com includes a truck load of services including "new with Me" streams: - Bebo Post a blog entry - Deli.cio.us Add a bookmark - Digg Digg a story, submit a story - Flickr Upload a photo, comment on a photo, add a photo to favorites - FriendFeed Likes, Comments, Links, Posts. We also bring along additional services that FriendFeed carries if you don't already have them in MyBlogLog. - Google Reader Share items - Jumpcut Post a movie - Last.FM Listen to a track - Mag.nolia Adds a Bookmarks - MyBlogLog Post a blog entry, comment on a blog, add a contact, join a community, tag a member or community, leave a message for a member - Netflix Add a DVD to queue - Seesmic Post a video - Stumbleupon Add a website to favorites, submit a website - ThisNext Recommends an item - Twitter Post a tweet - Yahoo Answers Post a question - Yelp Submit a review - YouTube Add a video to favorites - Upcoming Watch an event, attend an event
Kyle Murley

Revisiting "A Vision of Students Today" » Digital Ethnography Blog - 1 views

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  • students were undoubtedly engaged, just not with me.
  • nearly 40 years ago when they described the plight of “totally alienated students”
  • We don’t have to tear the walls down. We just have to stop pretending that the walls separate us from the world, and begin working with students in the pursuit of answers to real and relevant questions.
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  • not as distractions, but as powerful learning technologies
  • we allow students to develop much-needed skills in navigating and harnessing this new media environment, including the wisdom to know when to turn it off
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