The Jordan School District in Sandy, Utah, produced a provocative presentation in April 2007 on TeacherTube entitled "Pay Attention" . It's a nice video that runs about 7 mins and 40 secs. I've watched it a few times over the year to refresh my memory about some of the key ideas in it. I like a lot of them personally. Starting at 3 mins 50 secs into the video, this sequence of text appears: Did you know that over 1.5 billion people, all over the world, are walking around with powerful computers in the pockets or purses? "When you lose your mobile, you lose part of your brain.†...

Dennis Coxe posted Let me tell you about...Excuse me, what were you saying? about an article: The Post-Literate Era: Planning Around Short Attention Spans . The article is more or less summarized in the following graphic: Dennis' point is that this points us to designing eLearning that is shorter and to the point. The advent of shorter attention spans that successful learning events need to engage the learner, but I think this concept has often been given lip service while the focus of most learning is on how to save dollars by using software that will allow rapid development of ...

... problems at once, and you are sure to end up in frustration." Attention Management I have written a lot about what I call "attention management" and what everyone else calls "Continuous Partial Attention (term coined by Linda Stone)." Stowe ... information and attention. I believe that the problem needs to be attached also from the other direction. That is to augment a ... will need to multiply your bandwidth and attention by multiplying your self. Some type of virtual agent that not only ... your personality and is assigned to deal with specific types of tasks demanding your attention. For example, ...

Fred Wilson, a well known VC, covers on his blog a topic that I think is very relevant to the field of learning: The overabundance of information leads to a scarcity of attention "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." (Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.) Wow, that is ...

The value of multimedia in learning - Patti Shank Presenting instruction in multiple media can be more effective than doing it through a single medium (such as text), but what is important is combining media effectively, not merely adding media. Profs compete for students' attention - c/net Some teachers relished these new challenges, using new tools like smartboards to create interactive multimedia presentations, while others seemed stunned that their old methods no longer effectively reached their students. The productivity paradox - c/net Productivity growth ...

... naturally going to spread their time over broader and broader range. This gives rise to the Attention Economy where the scarce resource is not distribution channels or information, the scarce resource is attention. Each person only has a ... someone's attention, we often get Shorter Attention Spans and only getting partial attention - Stop Reading - Skim Dive Skim . If you think about the Long Tail graph, it works just as well when we substitute Attention instead ... factor in a knowledge workers decision about the use of information. Time (attention) is much more ...

The problem with the clocks would have never escaped Apple’s ferocious attention to detail, but it is not the ... : Attention to detail. “Ferocious attention to detail.” A beautiful phrase. And a rule we should ...

Hi everyone. Some of you may have caught glimpses of some work I'm doing behind the scenes of LCB. If you had a chance to see Peter Isackson's post on improvisational learning from May of 2002 that accidentally was at the top of this page for the last 24 hours or so, you got a glimpse of the future by seeing the past. I've begun the process of consolidating all of the posts of LCB from 2002 to the present into one environment. This effort is in anticipation of a migration to a new environment sometime in the near future. If your the type to volunteer to do some grunt work, keep your ...

... emoticons, text messaging, and social networks to communicate. (Should I only respect and give attention to people who ...

The links in my previous post were broken (thank you Ullrich for bringing it to my attention), but now they are working. cheers!

Fellow Phoenician Alan Levine , of the New Media Consortium , is doing some great stuff with SecondLife that we should be paying attention too.

Maybe I've not been paying attention, but in the webinar that I just finished, the tool GoToMeeting had a neat feature that showed the percentages of people who were paying attention (had the meeting visual in the foreground) vs. those who were not paying attention. These were shown in percentages - easy to see and understand. There was also a display of those in attendance vs. those who had left. Both of these were great pieces of information. I'm going to want them in my virtual meeting / classroom tools going forward. Also - know that the organizer/presenter can now tell if you ...

Great news from the gaming front. Red Hot Learning was a finalist in the prestigious Games for Change event in New York. They got a lot of media attention with their Redistricting Game . Go forth and play!

It seems that to attract attention these days you have to summarise your idea and intent into a single syllable. Ever since Gladwell's Blink, it seems that every book I pick up follows the same pattern: Sway - the Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behaviour - Brafman & Brafman Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Thaler & Sunstein Yes! - 50 Secrets from the ...

My programming skills are so lame, I just locked myself out of my personal Drupal environment and can’t find the back door to get in. Hence, I’m turning my attention to something simpler: EtherPad . Give it a shot.

... huh, game desigers care about UI...diff climes equal diff racial types...barbarian villages now have resources...I keep thinking how much attention has been paid to what kind of experience is bring created for the gamer/learner. "get your mind churning about the possibilities"...multiple paths to victory...can there be multiple paths to the same learning objective?

Viewpoint to bring this report to the attention of those who have not yet read it. It deserves widespread attention ...

Just saw Pew Report - One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008. That statistic is downright sad, distressing - some truly depressing facts in the report. It also really caught my attention because of my recent post around the 90-9-1 Rule . So, a higher percentage of people are in prison out of the US population than actively contribute in any given population? Can that be right? Prisoners are more common than active contributors?

How to Battle the Coming Brain Drain By forcing out the employees with the most experience, companies may be inadvertently pushing critical knowledge out the door. Extreme Learning: Decision Games What separates novices from experts is the way they size things up. Experts assess a situation with less information than novices. Designers start by teasing out the "thin slices" that experts pay attention to when making rapid decisions.

The ZUNEPHONE! "We're actively seeking partners in the phone business" -Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO (during Zune interview) "A Zune phone is definitely part of the future of this brand." -Chris Stephenson, GM for Zune I should pay more attention to this other Steve guy from Microsoft. He seems very ahead of the game on this one. I'm mostly excited about the idea of poloroid film making a comeback. Ah...to dream.

This post caught my attention at elearningpost because we do a lot of training work around Decision Making.  This is good stuff. "Social psychology... reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act." â€" Stanley Milgram Its a fabulous read.  Oh yeah, its well designed too.  PDFs are so cool!

I know there's a lot of social networking tools out there, but looking purely at the educational possibilities, I quite like the look of Infodit .  Intodit allows you to establish a group site with a combination of wiki and forum functionality. It does this without undue complication and I can see it being a great way of focusing attention on an educational topic or project. By the way, I joined the Coldplay fan group!

I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. Training went better than I could have imagined. As one of my co-workers put it - "For you - it's all about Monday." For those who will serve as floor support next week - I'm starting to plant the bug that I want them to pay attention to repeat questions and areas where people seem to have trouble. The last day of training was uneventful. Save for the image of me hopping around like a jacked up maniac because the hard part of this project for me is over. Now - I can kick back and do whatever people tell me to do.

The research is in: Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded . [Found via - Knowledge Jolt .] The important findings... Previous studies have show that consuming caffeine can improve one's attention and enhance cognitive performance, with 200 milligrams (equivalent to two cups of coffee) being the optimal dose. Moderate doses of caffeine can also make you more easily convinced by arguments that go against your beliefs, say Pearl Martin of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and her colleagues. Perfect for training situations! But ... people who gulp down lattes ...

On Saturday afternoon, a dozen of us talked about inspirational encounters with art. Art , and I refer to high Art, once intimidated me. I spent time trying to figure out what made it great. In time, my attention drifted from the art itself to people’s relationship to the art. Hence…. Dejeuner sur l’Herbe Jackson Pollack and me Couple in Toronto Matisse, Musee d’Orsai Van Gogh, Musee d’Orsai Monet, Musee d’Orsai Uta and Isamu Noguchi Le Salon at the Met Giacometti at MOCA It all depends on ...

I love getting participant feedback from Virtual Leader, in most because it feels so different than feedback from other programs. Here's one quote I just got yesterday, going to the idea of situational awareness . The Virtual Leader simulation requires a lot of attention to detail. It has brought me an awareness of how critical it is to be conscious of the entire surroundings. I had no idea how intense it is to consciously consider everything that goes on around you when working with a group of people. If you want a pdf of reactions to VL, just send me an email ...

How many of you really pay attention to what you hear when you take a walk. Those of you who wear iPods may miss out on much of life which is happening around you. This morning, while taking my dog for a walk I heard two Northern Goshawks ( Wikipedia Link ) screeching. We adjusted our walk and arrived in time to find the two youngster's having a food fight over a fresh kill. My photography isn't the best, but my two juvenile hawks did not think it was important to provide me with perfect photos ... expand any image for a full sized view.   ...

... demanded every ounce of attention I could muster to manage the various media streams. A Digital Native I am not ; ) You ... your attention to David Williamson Shafer’s talk where he brings up some very good points about the need for ...

... how to keep attention in that media." or...anyone in the learning business--of how to keep attention focused on the ...

House, I'm afraid) are able to pay attention to this level of detail (a DOOR for pete's sake!) and still manage to get ... you can see how the overall quality of the project goes up. I see this in eLearning tutorials. A little bit of attention ... someone to do something. Much like building a house - it's pointless to pay close attention to doorknob placement ...