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Phil Taylor

Stop Telling Your Students To "Pay attention!" | Brain Based Learning | Brain Based Tea... - 3 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Instead of saying to students, “Pay attention!” what you really want to say is, “Suppress interesting things!”
Phil Taylor

Interviews - Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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multitasking pbs frontline media

shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Oct 11 - Cached
  • We were absolutely shocked. We all lost our bets. It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They're terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they're terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they're terrible at switching from one task to another.
  • One of the biggest points here I think is, when I grew up, the greatest gift you could give someone was attention, and the best way to insult someone was to ignore them. ... The greatest gift was attention. Well, if we're in a society where the notion of attention as important is breaking apart, what now is the relationship glue between us? Because it's always been attention.
Phil Taylor

(Linda Stone's Thoughts on Attention and Specifically, Continuous Partial Attention ) - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
  • We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing
  • It is an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always in high alert when we pay continuous partial attention.
Phil Taylor

What Will You Click On Next? Focusing Our Attention Online | MindShift - 3 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Phil Taylor on 07 Sep 12
     
    Great book about focus, an invaluable skill to teach our students.
Phil Taylor

Attention versus distraction? What that big NY Times story leaves out » Niema... - 0 views

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attention distraction Internet learning

shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • robbing kids of their ability to concentrate
  • The question, though, is: distraction from what? And also: What’s inherently wrong with distraction?
  • Formal education, as we’ve framed it, is not only about finding ways to learn more about the things we love, but also, equally, about squelching our aversion to the things we don’t — all in the ecumenical spirit of generalized knowledge.
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  • He just doesn’t care about algebra.
  • The web inculcates a follow your bliss approach to learning that seeps
  • It’s a bottom-up shift that our top-down education systems, and journalism along with them, are grappling with.
    • Phil Taylor
      Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10
       
      The real issue? What is the correct balance?
  • It’s not ruining what was; it’s simply moving on. We don’t write like the Romantics anymore, not because we can’t enjoy or appreciate what they write, but because that is simply not the world we live in.
Phil Taylor

Learning in the Age of Digital Distraction - 0 views

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learning distractions

shared by Phil Taylor on 12 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • We have to “re-train ourselves to become comfortable with sustaining our attention on a single goal and for young people, who may have never developed this skill, to learn the value and to appreciate the value and to even feel the value of sustained attention.”
Joseph Magdalene

Book Sales Representative Resume Sample - 0 views

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shared by Joseph Magdalene on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Joseph Magdalene on 27 Mar 12
     
    A book sales representative, is someone who works at a book store and helps increase the sales of books with his social and marketing skills. Not only is it his job to increase the profit of the store but also keep track of the new books in the market, the choice of the public and attractive way to gain their attention.
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