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11 Dec 09

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Digital Natives – Are They Really Skilled at Multitasking? — Open Education

  • Researchers determined that the low multitaskers‘ group consistently outdid their highly multitasking counterparts on a series of classic psychology tests designed to assess attention and memory skills.
  • The tests involved the participant’s ability to ignore irrelevant information or distracters, the degree to which participants were able to organize their working memory and the skills at which they could switch tasks.
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15 Oct 09

Services Website

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Green Chameleon » The War Between Awareness and Memory

there is evidence that faster, easier, access to current awareness broadens our absorption of the present and thins out our access to the past. Simply put, too much of now means less and less memory.

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blendedmemory

  • We have to figure out how to see and manage our tools and our activities to satisfy a balance of knowledge needs across the entire spectrum, and take a debate about technology and turn it into a dialogue about practices

  • this is soemthing that came up more clearly in a discussion over at Greg Lambert’s blog, where he points out that “you should only highlight (store and archive) those things that you think you’ll have to recall later on”.



    My point in response was that this means knowledge workers need to become more literate about the kinds of knowledge they are using, what they are fit for, and if for memory, treat them accordingly from the point of creation.



    http://www.geeklawblog.com/2009/07/capturing-knowledge-if-youve.html

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11 Aug 09

Read me first: Google isn't making us dumb – or smart. That's the problem, says Andrew Brown | Technology | The Guardian

  • Of course there are circumstances in which following the old procedural rules no longer work. But they are the times when we need most to cultivate the habits of disciplined thought, to master the confusion.
  • It's not the technology that damages our ability to think. It's the habits of mind that technology promotes. The habits of disciplined, careful thought that linear reading promotes are more useful for understanding a changing world than the ability to pay superficial attention to five different streams of information. I don't think computers make it more difficult. It has always been difficult. But if they allow us to pretend we don't need it any more, then they are really helping us to become a lot more stupid, fluidly or not.
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03 Aug 09

BBC World Service - Save Our Sounds - Audio Map

You can get involved by sending us sounds from where you live, and then listen your way around the world with our interactive map.

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