Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlFree Medical Books - 0 views
New Sims - PhET Simulations - 0 views
Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class - The Washington Post - 0 views
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I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is their own propensity towards involuntary and emotional reaction.
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Professors are at least as bad at estimating how interesting we are as the students are at estimating their ability to focus.
OER and Textbook Debate - 1 views
Research: When it Comes to Visual Activities, Video Gamers Learn Faster -- Campus Technology - 0 views
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Gaming Score one for gamers. An experiment at Brown University has found a correlation between people who frequently play video games and their ability to retain learning about two quickly learned visual activities. The results suggest that video game playing not only improves player performance but also builds up the capacity to improve performance.
First Class Ice Breakers Using Mobile Devices « User Generated Education - 2 views
Tackling Makeup Exam Policies: 3 Guidelines, 2 Workarounds - 0 views
Avoiding the Trap of the Info Dump for Online Course Announcements - 0 views
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"...this is a time-management strategy for overwhelmed faculty. "I'm swamped for time so let me just blast this all out at once. Phew. I've done my part; now the rest is up to them." In struggling to help manage our own information overload, we pass the overload along to our students. I don't believe it's our intention to pass the buck, but you know what they say about good intentions.
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