The Multi-tasking Brain at Various Ages

Lately,I can’t seem to get enough information about multi-tasking.

A comment on an earlier post got me thinking about it again.

Caffeinating,Calculating,Computerating by Ryan Ritchie

Dwayne Hodgson wrote:

“I wonder if there is a generational thing at work here? Many of my younger colleagues are very adept at [...]

Respecting Others in the Age of Distraction

I have to confess that in a conference call meeting the other day I found myself multi-tasking instead of paying careful attention. I justified it to myself by only doing it during agenda items that didn’t completely involve me. Still,I was clearly distracted! After trying a few times to do more than one [...]

The iPhone vs. Dialogue Education

How many of you facilitators want to frisk your participants before a learning event so you can strip them of their iPhones (or Blackberries or Palm Pilots or . . . )? No more sneaking peaks at e-mail during the warm-up tasks,no checking the weather while another team is practice teaching,no [...]