JOURNAL: Is Scanning and Situational Awareness a cure for Multitasking Drift? - Global ... - 0 views
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If you are like me, you interact with a flood of information, online networks, and people everyday. To handle it all, we multitask. Unfortunately, it's easy to get off track or drift off course while multi-tasking.
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the act of multi-tasking -- responding to an e-mail/tweet/phone call, adding a new post/picture, etc. -- becomes an end in itself, rather than a means to an end.
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How do you build a scan for online multitasking? Build a checklist. List the online tasks you want/need to keep up with. Organize the list from the most important task to the least. Repeat important tasks in the list if the intervening tasks take you away too long from that important task. After you go through enough scans to clear the deck, take a break to work on items that require long term thinking.
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