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I have learned that too much information frustrates rather than inspires students.
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courseware makes distributing this information to students amazingly easy
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risk (unintentionally) giving students much more information than they can reasonably digest
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remembering course goal
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how a teacher could spend a considerable amount of time supplying background information to the detriment of skills development
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: the goal was not for students to become proficient in Rousseau or Discourse on Inequality—
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ecome proficient readers,
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oo much information may overwhelm students and detract from the intended outcome.
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Clay Johnson included in his wonderful book "  The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption " is enough to prove this reality.
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achieving "inbox zero" ( dealing with every email inside  of your inbox) is akin to running a 10k or getting a promotion at work
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nformation can have physiological effects on our bodies, as well as fairly severe and uncontrollable consequences on our decision-making capability.
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less really is more.
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how choice overload impacts our ability to make productive decisions.
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there were 24 jams available for sampling, 20 percent more people stopped to sample than when only six jams were offered
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sampling is different from buying.
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four ways to fight choice overload.
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1) Cut.
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Evaluate the choices and pick one. Then spend time going deep into a single resource.
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selecting a resource is more meaningful when we teach about it at the point of need.
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2) Concretize.
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still make things concrete
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3) Categorize
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people felt they had more choices when presented with 400 options divided into 20 categories as opposed to 600 options spread across 10.
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Separate them
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4) Start simple
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smaller sets of options first
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quality over quantity
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