I know, I’m behind. I do carry this book everywhere I go, it just seems that crazy things have been happening while I am trying to make time to read. For instance, Monday morning I got on my bus to work, thinking that I would have a nice 30 minutes to read. No, no, no… a man had a heart attack and we had to pull over and it was a tad hard to concentrate. It’s things like these that make me look bad.
Regardless of my trampled efforts to get caught up I do enjoy the information and find it very relevant to my current projects. On page 52 Mayer provides us a glimpse into the limited cognitive resources of learners and how the allocation of said resources happens during learning. It turns out that we simply can’t pay attention to everything going on in any educational environment and that as Instructional Designers understanding the hierarchy of information is essential to every lesson’s organizational structure.
Currently I am working with a subject matter expert who is a technical expert in her field. She is a genius at her craft, but is married to a lot of information that should be placed in secondary and teritary information levels. It is my job to organize our course content in a manner that provides these limited cognitive resources a path toward the proper allocation and thus, essential learnings.
How will I do? We’ll see! 
