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“Brain Freeze: Does your eLearning System Cause Learning Paralysis?”

Vignettes Learning

However, the influx of information to an individual’s brain may prove to be debilitating to one’s decision making process or may result to learning paralysis for learners. A serious side effect is “ brain freeze.” In her study, volunteers’ brain activities were measured with an fMRI. In “Dying for Information?”

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"Why Exaggeration Works in Learning"

Vignettes Learning

The vignette,"Symptoms of Info Overload", is a wacky illustration of a serious matter that's creeping into the work environment. You see, when a person begins taking in information beyond what can be handled by the brain, information overload happens. When this happens, then it is no longer funny.

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How I Caught Up on my RSS Feeds

Learning Developments

Now I want to share a couple of ways I've been able to manage the information overload that is common when subscribing to many blogs. Quickly determine if the blog post your looking at is pertinent information for your job over the next year. While a lot of the postings about learning 2.0

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"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Or "Are We Dumbing Our Online Learners?"

Vignettes Learning

Related articles: Circling the Wagons Against Nick Carr - Arguments and praises for Nick Carr Neil Postman - my hero, who believed we entertain ourselves too much with media Some of my related thoughts: "The Outsourced Brain" "If You Believe in Computers Too Much, You Lose Touch with Reality." -- "Joseph Weizenbaum : An Appreciation" - Inventor of (..)

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Working Smarter: Most popular posts of 2011

Jay Cross

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 5 Reasons Why Activity Streams Will Save You From Information Overload - Luis Suarez , May 4, 2011.

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Top 75 eLearning Posts - May 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

While still important, a more critical role to support the convergence of learning assets and workflows requires consideration of robust EPSS technology to play a pivotal role in the very near future. ZaidLearn , May 4, 2010 How Does Your Brain Understands What Your Ear Hears ? Information overload is more serious than ever.&#.