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Gloria Mark is a professor, author, and researcher. Gloria joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what attention is, how email can be a main source of stress, and what the study of Informatics is. Gloria and Dax talk about the concept of flow, what social capital on the internet is, and what the fallacy in multi-tasking is. Gloria explains how being an artist prepared her for studying psychology, how well-being should be prioritized over productivity in the workplace, and how self-interruption is a major culprit of distraction.

Listen to the podcast: https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/gloria-mark?fbclid=IwAR3gdXUNdGBhMvvuSu6w12QBoKBgwR_ld24170aVieHyJ6_6-XUl-vVBqgw

Mimi Ito, [informatics professor in residence], is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist at UC Irvine. She’s been sharing her observations with EdSurge readers for nearly a decade now, reflecting on young people’s interest-driven and playful engagements as they relate to education. Recently, we were fortunate to speak with her at length on the topic of game-based learning. Here, she comments on the history of gaming in education, its limitations and its potential—when done well—as a conduit for deep connections with learners.

Read the full interview on EdSurge. 

In this conversation with Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics Gloria Mark, the podcast explores many different facets of attention, including but not limited to how our attention span is decreasing, how technology is shaping our attention habits, the consequences of a struggling attention span, and many different solutions that we might consider to take back control of our attention. Gloria recently authored the book Attention Span, which will be released on Jan. 10, 2023.

Listen to the podcast: https://player.fm/series/singularity-radio/fbl79-gloria-mark-understanding-attention-in-the-digital-age