brianhousand.com @brianhousand Today’s technology offers incredible potential to demonstrate creative-productive giftedness, but as a society we have fallen victim to an unhealthy digital diet consuming massive amounts of screentime that often leaves us feeling bloated and unsatisfied. This session aims to present ways better have a healthier technology diet and reduce distractions, set goals, track progress, and get stuff done.

1. TECH TIPS 4
DEFEATING
DISTRACTION &
PROMOTING
PRODUCTIVITY
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4. ABOVE
AVERAGE
ABILITY
CREATIVITY
TASK
COMMITMENT
(RENZULLI, 1978)

5. CREATIVE
PRODUCTIVE
GIFTEDNESS
SCHOOL
HOUSE
GIFTEDNESS

6. SCHOOL
HOUSE
GIFTEDNESS
CREATIVE
PRODUCTIVE
GIFTEDNESS

9. 1982

11. THE PROMISE
OF TECHNOLOGY

15. What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

17. What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

18. BUT…
I don’t have
time to be
creative!

19. ≠BUSY Important

20. What if I told you,
that you could gain
an extra hour
everyday?

21. YOU AND YOUR DIGITAL DEVICE

23. 46%CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ONE

24. Why is it
that when
one person
picks up
their phone,
everybody
else has to?
?

25. A lot of smartphone use seems to be habitual,
automatic behaviors that we have no awareness of.

26. April
ESTIMATED SMARTPHONE USE ACTUAL SMARTPHONE USE
5 HOURS

27. 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.

29. Tara Swart
Neuroscientist
CHECKING THE HEADLINES
TOXIC COMPARISON
COMFORT EATING
MULTITASKING

30. https://i1.wp.com/scifiinterfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/walle-hoverchair05.jpg

31. 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
1:30
1:35
1:41
1:49
2:06
2:15
2:22
Average h:mm spent on social media daily

32. minutes per day
50

33. the illusion of

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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.

35. hours per day
of screen time
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36. 3%of time spent
creating.

37. #1
HOW
MUCH
TIME?

39. STOP! You ARE
SCROLLING
YOUR LIFE AWAY

40. inthemoment.io

41. But,where does the time go?

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44. #2
PICK ONE TASK
AND DO IT!

45. Pomodoro
Method
25 Minutes
5 Minutes
25 Minutes
5 Minutes
25 Minutes
5 Minutes
25 Minutes
15 Minutes

47. Inform
Negotiate
Schedule
Call back

48. #3
AVOID THE MYTH
OF MULTITASKING

49. MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller notes
that our brains are "not wired to
multitask well... 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."

50. A study at the University Of London
showed that subjects who multitasked
while performing cognitive tasks
experienced significant IQ drops. In
fact, the IQ drops were similar to what
you see in individuals who skip a night
of sleep or who smoke marijuana.

51. Multitasking has also been found to
increase production of cortisol, the
stress hormone. Having our brain
constantly shift gears pumps up
stress and tires us out, leaving us
feeling mentally exhausted (even
when the work day has barely begun).

52. 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

53. “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.”
Daniel Levitin

54. #4 SCHEDULE
EMAIL TIMES

55. #5 TRY TO ONLY
TOUCH IT ONCE

56. TWO MINUTE RULE:
If a task can be done in 2 minutes.
DO IT!

57. TWO MINUTE RULE:
If a task can be done in 2 minutes.
NO! Do it after a BIG task.

58. WHAT PRODUCTIVITY
HACKS DO YOU USE?
HOW CAN THIS BENEFIT
STUDENTS?

60. ENERGY ENERGY

61. An
Essentialist
thinks almost
everything is
nonessential.
A Non-
Essentialist
thinks almost
everything is
essential.

62. End every day by making a
to do list.

63. End every day by making a
to do list and a to don’t list.

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