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Martin Leicht

Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?) - The New York Times - 0 views

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multitasking monotasking distraction read focus

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    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 18 Oct 16
       
      Unless of course the task is tortuous, then we are prone to look for distraction. We would rather help others work on this tortuous task.
  • by doing more you’re getting less done.
  • were enough to double the number of errors participants made in an assigned task
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  • interruptions as brief as two to three seconds
  • It’s a digital literacy skill
  • paying attention
  • If I keep looking at my phone or my inbox or various websites, working feels a lot more tortuous. When I’m focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.”
  • monotasking is “something that needs to be practiced.
  • humans have finite neural resources that are depleted every time we switch between tasks
  • Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness,
  • I just stuff my brain full of them because I can’t manage to do anything else,” she said. “The sad thing is that I don’t get any closer to deciding which one I like.”
  • That’s why you feel tired at the end of the day
  • Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it
  • The more we allow ourselves to be distracted from a particular activity, the more we feel the need to be distracted.
  • Research shows that just having a phone on the table is sufficiently distracting to reduce empathy and rapport between two people who are in conversation
  • After spending a few days hiking in the Arctic by myself, I was able to get all of them done in just a few days.”
  • Start by giving yourself just one morning a week to check in, and remind yourself what it feels like to do one thing at a time
  • Practice how you listen to people
  • Put down anything that’s in your hands and turn all of your attentional channels to the person who is talking
Brian C. Smith

Collaboration - 0 views

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collaboration

shared by Brian C. Smith on 14 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Collaboration is more than simply the division of labor. It should not be taught as an isolated skill or coerced. Sadly, like many seemingly good ideas, schools seek to mechanize collaboration by turning natural process into a set of measurable skills and multi-year course of study, easily assessed. Some children win, while others fail.
  • Cooperation and collaboration are natural processes. Such skills are useful when the creative process benefits from interdependence. The best collaboration mirrors democracy when individual talents, knowledge, or experiences are contributed to produce something larger than the sum of its parts.
  • Work with your friends. Work with people you trust. Work with people who have different skills or expertise. If that doesn’t produce the result you desire, you will find others to collaborate with. That is how you learn to collaborate. You may teach it, but the students will not stay taught.
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  • The only reason to assign group size is scarcity of materials (we have to share). Even in those largely avoidable scenarios, it hardly matters if group size varies a bit. The main consideration is inactivity by some members when a group is too large.
  • Collaboration is both selfish and selfless. You give of yourself by sharing your talent and expertise, but the collaboration should benefit you as well.
  • Brian C. Smith on 14 Apr 17
     
    Read the whole post.
Martin Leicht

Zuckerberg's Expensive Lesson - The New York Times - 0 views

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      Martin Leicht on 09 Sep 15
       
      Looks like an interesting read in terms of prototyping and failing. 
Martin Leicht

A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids. Now you can understand all of t... - 1 views

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slack RUA digital citizenship acceptable use responsible agreement

shared by Martin Leicht on 05 May 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Leicht on 05 May 17
     
    "see page 10"
  • Brian C. Smith on 10 May 17
     
    Does this fit the "Modern Learning" we are after? I appreciate the article and it provides a resource for discussion with kids, but I think it's more of a digital literacy item. I know, DL is a part of modern learning, but I'd like to see this space grow beyond just tech-focused items and push thinking about learning and teaching. On second thought... I have an alert for this group so I receive it in my email. Who's reading Diigo anymore anyway?
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