Apr 23, 20153 minHamlet’s BlackBerry: Embracing Students’ Digital DevicesMick Charney Associate Professor, Architecture - Kansas State University If you are a seasoned teacher, you have likely noticed that times have certainly changed…or have they? In the Shakespearean play of the same name, Hamlet says, “Yea, from the table of my memory | I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records, | All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, | That youth and observation copied there . . . .” A couple lines later, when wondering how his uncle Claudius, mu
Apr 6, 20155 minMultitasking Deconstructed: When It Is and Is Not PossibleTodd Zakrajsek Associate Professor - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Multitasking is a fascinating topic. Much has been written about the ability of today’s youth being efficient multitaskers (Miller, 2012). Others have noted that multitasking is not possible or greatly hinders learning (e.g., Junco & Cotten, 2012; Ophir, Nass, & Wagner, 2009). As a psychologist, one thing I learned long ago is that when it comes to anything related to the human body, it is E