Addressing Multitasking in Your Classroom/Course

[jeffrey_brandt]

According to Clifford Nass of Stanford University, “One of the biggest problems affecting the human brain in the twenty first century is multitasking.” This session will be a 30-minute blitzkrieg answering questions like: What is multitasking? How does it affect the brain? What can I do about it? How can I help my students?

Presenter: Jeff Brandt​ - Salt Lake Community College

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[jeffrey_brandt]

Here is the link given in the presentation on resources you can use to spark the multitasking conversation with your students or institution.

The Google Doc is open for suggestion and comment. Feel free to add comments or questions to this post as well. Thanks.

Resources Google Doc

[kona]

Thanks! Appreciate you posting these resources, but could you also post your slides? I missed the last couple of your presentation and I think they were the ones I was really interested in because they related to Canvas and designing your course/content to help reduce multitasking.

[jeffrey_brandt]

Hopefully this helps. Multitasking Presentation

[kona]

Yes! Thank you!

[bigenhoc]

Great Session...Here is a link to one of the articles I have on this topic. We have additional work in this area which has been presented at AERA and is now being reworked for publication. I would be happy to discuss any of this with folks who are interested.

1. Note-Taking and Memory in Different Media EnvironmentsLin Lin , Chris Bigenho
   Computers in the Schools
   Vol. 28, Iss. 3, 2011

               Bigenho, C. and Lin, L. (2012). Multi-tasking in the classroom: Does chatting with friends on the computer affect understanding of a                lecture? American Educational Research Association , 2012.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07380569.2011.594989" title="http://www.tandfonline.com/d...

Cheers,

Chris

[jeffrey_brandt]

Thanks Chris.