Multitasking In High School Research Paper

This week, we discussed school and how it felt to us over the years, and explained the real meaning of multitasking and time. To me, the most important, or rather the one that stood out the most, was the lecture on school and what our ideal school would be. To most, school then and now are completely two different sides of the spectrum. When I was younger, school didn't feel like a job I would go to eight hours a day with people I hardly knew. It was fun and it was something I didn't dread going to because I didn't have as much responsibility. As I grow older and more mature, I see teachers and adults giving students more responsibility and less time to have fun with our friends. But even our friends seem to lower in number because we don't know as many people as we did when we were younger. High school is very different from elementary, not just academically, but socially. People describe it as stressful and time consuming. It's not an argument that …show more content…
We all like to think that we can multitask and many things at once, but in reality, we are just switching what we do. Our brains can't do two things at once, it switches between them really fast and we may think we are fully engaged in both, but one of those tasks is receiving less attention. For example, reading/studying and listening to music. Many people tend to study in while listening to music, and I am one of those people. I can't go a day without listening to music and prefer it than silence. I recently found out than doing so can impair productivity. Since the brain switches from the lyrics in the song and the words in the paper, focusing on one action is strenuous work, and attempting to retain the information is almost impossible. So as my Professor suggested, I will study with music without lyrics, and/or in another language so my brain won't have to switch between the two tasks at hand, and I can focus on my