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To begin with, multitasking creates a great deal of stress and pressure for the individual. When someone is bombarded with many tasks it becomes overwhelming to try to handle them all at one time. Tugend explains that doing routine tasks are easy to multitask, but once more “cognitive thinking” is used it becomes impossible to be able to focus on both at once. Attempting to can easily cause

Sarah D. Sparks wrote an interesting article in “Education Week,” that shows that multitasking is not an activity that reflects great results for most people. Sparks learned from Larry D. Rosen’s study that 13 to 18 year olds use an average of four to six types of technology simultaneously while they are not in school. Did you know when people multitask they never actually fully focus on anything? For people to do multiple things at once, it actually takes them longer to complete each task than if they did them one at a time. If someone has to make a decision, there will be a delay in their thinking process. In Sarah D. Sparks’ article, she refers to Steven G. Yantis’s research that explained that people who multitask actually perform lower on memory and attention tests than people who did not. This is due to them focusing more on their distractions. The effect of

Even though people feel like they’re accomplishing more, they have fallen trapped to the common misconception that people can complete multiple tasks at a time, but they accomplish less and their performance diminishes. Many people try to complete a set of tasks with no common goal, such as the example Dr. Clifford Nass gives, “The problem is we’re doing a report on Abraham Lincoln and tweeting about last night and watching a YouTube video about cats playing the piano, et cetera.” In the words of Ira Flatow, she calls multitasking more like multiswitching because people try to do more things at one time, but they cannot complete these tasks at the exact same time. The mind integrates its focus to two different tasks by stopping one task to

Multitasking is not what everyone thinks it means. The ability for one to multitask has been sought after by employers and college professors for decades. The narrative that the brain can actually perform more than one task at a time effectively is unfounded. In Alina Tugend’s “ Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um… Focus” and Verna von Pfetten’s “Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?), both authors in fact describe the limitations of the human mind can actually prevent one from effectively multitasking thus showing that monotasking, only performing a singular task at a time, is the future of time management.

Studies are constantly being conducted by psychologists on the effects of multitasking and the majority of experiments have come to show that the act of multitasking is negative for our cognitive development. However, numerous

In Is Multitasking Bad For Us, it states, “...multitasking is something done capably though not comfortably” (Keim). This quote shows that it's okay to multitask when you are in a rush but you may not understand what you are doing as good as if you didn't multitask. Therefore; people often do it because they have to because they don’t have time to do things one by one. Not to mention, this isn’t the only time people multitask because they are in a rush. In Teens Can Multitask, But What Are The Costs, students explain how they feel about multitasking by saying, “...multitasking makes them feel more productive and less stressed” (Aratani). People often get stressed because they have tons of stuff to do, but when you are multitasking you get things done faster and efficiently. My friend was in a rush to get ready for school one day and she had to straighten her hair in the car while

Education benefits individual mentally, emotionally and physically by placing them in better place than they were previously before. Everybody would agree that learning something new would take place throughout the life. Learning style defined as "A term that describes the variations among learners in using one or more senses to understand, organize, and retain experience" (Reid, 1987, p. 89). Furthermore, Felder and Henriques (1995, p. 21) explained learning styles as "the ways in which an individual characteristically acquires, retains and retrieves information". However, different learners possess different characteristics and different preferred learning styles to perceive, process, take in and understand information.

In general in classical psychology, it is said to be impossible to be effective in multitasking. However, the students believe that they are capable, and technology has increased their need to multitask. A study was conducted in order to determine how well the students can switch between tasks and not become distracted. Most of the students believed that they were effective in multitasking, yet the test results suggested differently. The test results showed that one student was actually significantly slower when switching between tasks, rather than capable of completing all tasks consistently. The professionals believe that multitasking will create minds that are unable to think well and clearly. The abundant access to technology allows our distractions to get in the way of the positive aspects of technology. Based of data from studies, it is shown that most kids and teenagers are using over 50 hours a week on technological devices, thus leading to issues with how their brain develops. The way a child chooses to spend most of their free time, it will have a significant impact on how their brain will function in the future as an

It may be hard to grasp the idea that developing electronical multitasking lifestyles may in turn develop an inability or prevention to learn at full capacity. Electronic multitasking may inhibit the way a person is capable of receiving and retaining important information, whether it be in school or in a person’s everyday life. In order to truly learn, a student or person must develop the proper skills of paying attention. Over the past decade, as electronic technologies have advanced and become more and more integrated into everyday life, studies are showing that electronic multitasking has not only brought along the persistent belief that one must learn to do many things at once, but

Although multitasking is presumed to be a competitive skill in the workforce, businesses, in fact, suffer financially and productively because workers cannot concentrate effectively while facing distractions. Multitasking has been studied socially and psychologically, and has been proven that the ability to process two things at once is not a fixed trait within people. Consequently, time loss, learning deficiencies, short-term memory loss, and proneness of committing error are byproducts from multitasking. Perceptibly, positive results from multitasking or task switching may be promising if the skill is practiced and is well trained. But forcing our efforts to respond to multiple tasks at once is detrimental to one’s mind because of the brain has its limitations and is unable to do so.

Learning styles and barriers to learning can be by the VARK to give a profile of learning preferences of how a person takes in and gives out information or Tidwell and Rodgers Practical learning styles Questionnaire. The VARK learning styles determines if the person learns by being a theorist, reflector, activist and/or pragmatist. The practical learning styles questionnaire looks at how people learn by their orientation, whether they are a realistic or creative, by their interaction, are they a doer or a thinker, by how they represent things, either by words or pictures, and how they process information, whether they are a surface or deep processor. There are many other

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Through extensive research we are now able to see that multitasking is not an effective learning method, but is a bad thing to do.

Learning transpires while an individual changes behavior, conduct, psychological processing, or emotional functioning as a consequence of introduction to new awareness, knowledge or experience. Precisely, a person’s learning style denotes the better approach, in which the learner captivates processes, understands comprehends and retains and recalls information. Learning style is also an individual 's distinctive ways and method, learning a well-known on strengths, weaknesses, favorites and preferences. Individuals with different learning style and techniques and some individuals have mix learning style, strategies and techniques. Individuals might discover that they retain a

Several studies suggest that multitasking is easy if it involves two different stimuli, such as watching and listening, than if both stimuli are the same time, but a person cannot carry on