Multitasking has become a habit that many people all over the world have adapted. In particular, students in college. College students are subject to high levels of stress due to rigorous course work from challenging classes. Multitasking in college consists of using technology to take notes in class and working on multiple assignments at once. Students become accustomed to multitasking because they believe this is the quickest way to get their work done all at once. However, multiple works of research have provided evidence that multitasking can damage college students in multiple ways. This paper will argue multitasking by analyzing its negative impact on college students’ lives.
Affecting Students’ Performance
First of all, multitasking will affect a student’s productivity. In order for a student to be efficient, they must dedicate their time and focus into one project at a time without interruptions (Jarmon, 2008). According to multiple psychologists, the amount of subjects one person can pay attention to at once is limited. Many students believe that this is false and that they can devout their time to multiple subjects and gain no negative consequence. However, studies show that multitasking can increase the number of memory errors as well as students’ processing time (Kraushaar & Novak, 2010). For example, the time that it takes for a student to move from one subject to the other can have a negative impact on their brain function. In order to multitask, the brain must go through a two-step process. First, the brain decides to do a new task instead of the original. Then, the brain must turn off the rules associated with the original task and turn on rules associated with the second task. This is defined as the rule-activation step (Rubinstein, Meyer, & Evans, 2001). Mainly, while the student is switching from one chore to the other they will experience a pause because of the brain’s processing (Jarmon, 2008). This process will not only affect the brain but it will also cause a delay in the student’s tasks which is the opposite goal of multitasking. …show more content…
It has been established that multitasking will interfere with a student’s focus. This goes on to dictate how engaged a student will be in class. If students are not focusing in class, it will result in less class discussion and constant interruptions by students who feel the need to repeat questions (Jarmon, 2008). When a professor has to constantly repeat the same question it is slowing down the entire class. Also, if a student becomes too immersed in an activity on their laptop this will cause them to be only partially focused on their professor’s lecture (Jarmon, 2008). When this happens, the professor will feel disconnected from their students. This causes further disruption in the class, due to the importance of a positive relationship between professor and student.
Conclusion
To conclude, multitasking is a process that poses negative threats on student’s academic life. I have shown how multitasking threatens student’s brain function and also its negative influence in college classrooms. Firmly put, college students can find other positive ways that they can get their work done. Multitasking will only slow them down, harm them, and cause them to perform undesirably in their courses. Many members of our society may believe that multitasking has a positive impact on their lives but with accurate research we can conclude that this is simply not
Affecting Students’ Performance
First of all, multitasking will affect a student’s productivity. In order for a student to be efficient, they must dedicate their time and focus into one project at a time without interruptions (Jarmon, 2008). According to multiple psychologists, the amount of subjects one person can pay attention to at once is limited. Many students believe that this is false and that they can devout their time to multiple subjects and gain no negative consequence. However, studies show that multitasking can increase the number of memory errors as well as students’ processing time (Kraushaar & Novak, 2010). For example, the time that it takes for a student to move from one subject to the other can have a negative impact on their brain function. In order to multitask, the brain must go through a two-step process. First, the brain decides to do a new task instead of the original. Then, the brain must turn off the rules associated with the original task and turn on rules associated with the second task. This is defined as the rule-activation step (Rubinstein, Meyer, & Evans, 2001). Mainly, while the student is switching from one chore to the other they will experience a pause because of the brain’s processing (Jarmon, 2008). This process will not only affect the brain but it will also cause a delay in the student’s tasks which is the opposite goal of multitasking. …show more content…
It has been established that multitasking will interfere with a student’s focus. This goes on to dictate how engaged a student will be in class. If students are not focusing in class, it will result in less class discussion and constant interruptions by students who feel the need to repeat questions (Jarmon, 2008). When a professor has to constantly repeat the same question it is slowing down the entire class. Also, if a student becomes too immersed in an activity on their laptop this will cause them to be only partially focused on their professor’s lecture (Jarmon, 2008). When this happens, the professor will feel disconnected from their students. This causes further disruption in the class, due to the importance of a positive relationship between professor and student.
Conclusion
To conclude, multitasking is a process that poses negative threats on student’s academic life. I have shown how multitasking threatens student’s brain function and also its negative influence in college classrooms. Firmly put, college students can find other positive ways that they can get their work done. Multitasking will only slow them down, harm them, and cause them to perform undesirably in their courses. Many members of our society may believe that multitasking has a positive impact on their lives but with accurate research we can conclude that this is simply not