As a college student you are required to listen to several important messages throughout the course of a school day. How has message overload impacted your listening in a negative way? In what ways could you remedy this problem?

What will be an ideal response?


Students responses may vary. Correct responses will include:
? Students need to talk about how receiving too many messages at the same time have been detrimental to the listening process.

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