A presentation on multitasking made for the Future of Learning cohort at the Learning 2.010 conference in Shanghai, September 2010.

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Multitasking.
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sking
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2. W h at is i t?

3. Is it something new?

4. Or has it always existed?

5. Older people
cannot do it

6. Young people
can do it

7. Young people
can do it ?

8. & = ?

9. & = ?

10. Do we need focus?

14. Things are changing quickly

15. Is multitasking moving us
forwards or backwards?

16. • “…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.” -
Clifford Nass, Professor at Stanford
University
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
digitalnation/interviews/nass.html#3

17. Multitasking may not be best for our
learning but it appears to be an
increasing trend...

18. ...like many other things, we
need to keep a healthy balance

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