Attention is the fundamental building block for how individuals think, how humans create tools and teach each other to use them, how groups socialize, and how people transform civilizations…. Clearly we have different forms of attention that are appropriate for different ways of doing things. Sometimes we need to “turn on all the lights” in order to be aware of as much as possible. Sometimes we need to be vigilant to information outside our focal area, and at other times we need to block out distractions and narrow our attention to a spotlight.
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Rheingold, H. (2010, October 7). Attention, and other 21st-century social media literacies. EDUCAUSE Review. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies