TECH TIPS 4
DEFEATING
DISTRACTION &
PROMOTING
PRODUCTIVITY
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ifted
ABOVE
AVERAGE
ABILITY
CREATIVITY
TASK
COMMITMENT
(RENZULLI, 1978)
CREATIVE
PRODUCTIVE
GIFTEDNESS
SCHOOL
HOUSE
GIFTEDNESS
SCHOOL
HOUSE
GIFTEDNESS
CREATIVE
PRODUCTIVE
GIFTEDNESS
1982
THE PROMISE
OF TECHNOLOGY
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
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BUT…
I don’t have
time to be
creative!
≠BUSY Important
What if I told you,
that you could gain
an extra hour
everyday?
YOU AND YOUR DIGITAL DEVICE
46%CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ONE
Why is it
that when
one person
picks up
their phone,
everybody
else has to?
?
A lot of smartphone use seems to be habitual,
automatic behaviors that we have no awareness of.
April
ESTIMATED SMARTPHONE USE ACTUAL SMARTPHONE USE
5 HOURS
WARNING:
Use can impair attention,
productivity and memory, dampen
creative thinking, increase stress
levels, reduce sleep quality and lead
to “cognitive errors” like forgetting
meetings and walking into people.
Tara Swart
Neuroscientist
CHECKING THE HEADLINES
TOXIC COMPARISON
COMFORT EATING
MULTITASKING
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1:35
1:41
1:49
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2:15
2:22
Average h:mm spent on social media daily
minutes per day
50
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FOMOThe uneasy and sometimes
all-consuming feeling that you’re
missing out – that your peers are doing,
in the know about, or in possession of
more or something better than you.
hours per day
of screen time
11
3%of time spent
creating.
#1
HOW MUCH
TIME AM I
SPENDING?
inthemoment.io
STOP! You ARE
SCROLLING
YOUR LIFE AWAY
DELETE
THAT APP
CHALLENGE
CHECKERS
PERUSERS
AWARENESS TO ACCEPTANCE
So,where does the time go?
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#2
AVOID
THE MYTH OF
MULTITASKING
“When people think
they're multitasking,
they're actually just
switching from one task
to another very rapidly.
And every time they do,
there's a cognitive cost."
Earl Miller
MIT neuroscientist
IQ
Multitasking comes with a biological
cost that ends up making us feel
tired much more quickly than if we
sustain attention on one thing.
Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin
“People eat more, they take more caffeine. Often what you really need in that
moment isn’t caffeine, but just a break. If you aren’t taking regular breaks
every couple of hours, your brain won’t benefit from that extra cup of coffee.”
OUT OF SIGHT
OUT OF MIND
TURN OFF
NOTIFICATIONS!
By not
looking
at your
phone,
you can
feel less
frantic.
DON’T
CLICK LIKE
CHALLENGE
#3
PICK ONE TASK
AND DO IT!
Pomodoro
Method
25 Minutes
5 Minutes
25 Minutes
5 Minutes
25 Minutes
5 Minutes
25 Minutes
15 Minutes
Inform
Negotiate
Schedule
Call back
#4 SCHEDULE
EMAIL TIMES
UNSUBSCRIBE
FROM UNWANTED EMAIL
CHALLENGE
TAKE A
FAUXCATION
CHALLENGE
ENERGY ENERGY
An
Essentialist
thinks almost
everything is
nonessential.
A Non-
Essentialist
thinks almost
everything is
essential.
WHAT PRODUCTIVITY
HACKS DO YOU USE?
HOW CAN THIS BENEFIT
STUDENTS?
End every day by making a
to do list.
End every day by making a
to do list and a to don’t list.
Write it down!
The Digital Declutter
STEP #1:
DEFINE YOUR TECHNOLOGY RULES
STEP #2:
TAKE A THIRTY-DAY BREAK
STEP #3:
REINTRODUCE TECHNOLOGY
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