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Kyle Murley

Deborah Alpert Sleight, PhD in Educational Psychology at Michigan State University in 2... - 0 views

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people university professors reports educaitonal Psychology uni

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    For my dissertation I looked at how people use paper-based performance support tools during unsupervised practice of a complex cognitive task. \n My research interests include performance support, distance education and the design of web-based educational systems.\n
Kyle Murley

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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      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
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    This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Multitaskers bad at multitasking - 0 views

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multitasking

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  • If you look at classical psychology textbooks, people cannot multitask - but if you walk around on the street, you see lots of people multitasking
  • are those people with a dearth of multitasking skills drawn to multitasking lifestyles, or do the lifestyles dull the skills?
  • potentially suggesting new means of teaching and even reporting news
Kyle Murley

TIP: Theories Functional Context (T. Sticht) - 2 views

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Education learning theories

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  • By using materials that the learner will use after training, transfer of learning from the classroom to the "real world" will be enhanced.
  • functional context approach was developed specifically for adult technical and literacy training (reading/writing/mathematics) in military programs
  • Use material and equipment that the learner will actually use after training
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    "Functional Context (T. Sticht) "
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