This secondary source article by Rekart (2011) aims to look at the consequences of high school students’ multitasking on study behaviours. The author will be able to describe what is going on with students with who are multitasking and possible solution to this nuisance by looking at different psychological research especially cognitive psychology in addition to neuroscience.
This article presents and analyzes different studies that all have the same conclusion, media multitasking has a bad influence on learning. The negative effects could be linked to the fact that brain’s capacity seems to be reduced when multitasking. In fact, the total intensity of brain activity is lower when someone is doing more than one task at the time, and that without …show more content…
To every problem its solution, the author presents many pertinent ideas to increase students focus and attention.
A constant flux of new technologies is hitting students at a faster rate than anytime before and according to Rosen (2017) this phenomenon has a great effect on students learning. In fact, studies have observed by making a comparison that people who are distracted by their cellphones were taking much longer to perform a certain task and that the amount of stress/anxiety was considerably higher for these people than those. Results of the task were the same but the way to get there was more difficult. Students works slower because they are not spending the entire time allowed to study, they look at their cellphones. Furthermore, I was found that people’s anxiety increases when their phone is taken away from them. This kind of addiction also has major negative incidence on sleeping, which is a necessity to learning processes. Since taking away cell phones is not an effective solution, Rosen (2017) suggest that people could calm their brain by doing activities they like, could build a certain resistance to distractions, could take actions to make their sleep better and could minimize notifications on their cellphones. Parents could condition their kids to these comportments by putting limits on their kid’s utilization of technology. These are all manners to increase
This article presents and analyzes different studies that all have the same conclusion, media multitasking has a bad influence on learning. The negative effects could be linked to the fact that brain’s capacity seems to be reduced when multitasking. In fact, the total intensity of brain activity is lower when someone is doing more than one task at the time, and that without …show more content…
To every problem its solution, the author presents many pertinent ideas to increase students focus and attention.
A constant flux of new technologies is hitting students at a faster rate than anytime before and according to Rosen (2017) this phenomenon has a great effect on students learning. In fact, studies have observed by making a comparison that people who are distracted by their cellphones were taking much longer to perform a certain task and that the amount of stress/anxiety was considerably higher for these people than those. Results of the task were the same but the way to get there was more difficult. Students works slower because they are not spending the entire time allowed to study, they look at their cellphones. Furthermore, I was found that people’s anxiety increases when their phone is taken away from them. This kind of addiction also has major negative incidence on sleeping, which is a necessity to learning processes. Since taking away cell phones is not an effective solution, Rosen (2017) suggest that people could calm their brain by doing activities they like, could build a certain resistance to distractions, could take actions to make their sleep better and could minimize notifications on their cellphones. Parents could condition their kids to these comportments by putting limits on their kid’s utilization of technology. These are all manners to increase