In this week's episode, we invited Tyler Shores, the ThinkLab Manager at the University of Cambridge and digital wellbeing researcher to speak to us about his insights and learnings. His extensive research spans topics such as digital and print reading, attention, digital distractions, and the role of social media in our lives. We'll be discussing his insights into the realm of digital wellbeing, exploring his research, his teachings at the University of Cambridge, and his approach to achieving balance in an increasingly intertwined online and offline world.
In this episode, we cover questions like:
- How Digital Distractions Impact Our Live
- Why Balance Between Online and Offline is Crucial
- When and How to Take "Information Breaks"
- How to Manage Time in a Limitless Digital World
- Why 'Attention Residue' Matters
About Tyler Shores:
Tyler Shores is the manager of the ThinkLab at the University of Cambridge, and is a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College. His research focuses on digital habits, social media, and how digital environments shape how we
work, think, and learn.
Prior to Cambridge, Tyler worked in online education at Stanford, served as a director of digital textbooks at an international education non-profit organization, and worked at the Google world headquarters in Mountain View, California while running the Authors@Google program. His various work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, WIRED, and many others. And he was once on an episode of The Simpsons.
You can take Tyler's course on Edx for free here.
You can learn more about Tyler on his website.
In this week's episode, we invited Tyler Shores, the ThinkLab Manager at the University of Cambridge and digital wellbeing researcher to speak to us about his insights and learnings. His extensive research spans topics such as digital and print reading, attention, digital distractions, and the role of social media in our lives. We'll be discussing his insights into the realm of digital wellbeing, exploring his research, his teachings at the University of Cambridge, and his approach to achieving balance in an increasingly intertwined online and offline world.
In this episode, we cover questions like:
- How Digital Distractions Impact Our Live
- Why Balance Between Online and Offline is Crucial
- When and How to Take "Information Breaks"
- How to Manage Time in a Limitless Digital World
- Why 'Attention Residue' Matters
About Tyler Shores:
Tyler Shores is the manager of the ThinkLab at the University of Cambridge, and is a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College. His research focuses on digital habits, social media, and how digital environments shape how we
work, think, and learn.
Prior to Cambridge, Tyler worked in online education at Stanford, served as a director of digital textbooks at an international education non-profit organization, and worked at the Google world headquarters in Mountain View, California while running the Authors@Google program. His various work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, WIRED, and many others. And he was once on an episode of The Simpsons.
You can take Tyler's course on Edx for free here.
You can learn more about Tyler on his website.