Many thanks to Dr. Clay Spinuzzi for his recent online presentation “Achieving balance: Applying Vygotskian mediation to time management.”
Session Recording
About the Session
How do people manage their time, and how can they do it more effectively? Although time management involves cognitive abilities (executive functions), it also involves cultural practices and tools — especially written texts. In this presentation, I discuss levels or layers of time management and how cultural resources can provide the structure and scaffolding for these layers. The presentation ends with a broader discussion of the audience members’ cultural resources and how they can contribute to time management.
About the Presenter
Dr. Clay Spinuzzi is a professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies how people organize, communicate, collaborate, and innovate at work. Spinuzzi has conducted multiple workplace studies, resulting in several articles and four books: Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT Press, 2003); Network (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Topsight (Amazon CreateSpace, 2013; second edition. Urso Press, 2018); and All Edge (University of Chicago Press, 2015). He blogs at spinuzzi.blogspot.com.