Did you know that your brain is only capable of storing between 5 and 9 bits of info at any given time? Multitasking is a detrimental habit that divides a person’s concentration in order to complete multiple tasks at once. Many people multitask because they believe that they can get things done fast but in reality it’s just wasting your time. Multitasking is not really essential because your brain is not focusing on anything at all. Specifically two reasons why students should not multitask are that media multitasking affects a students performance and is not an effective way to learn a skill. My first reason as to why students should not be multitasking is that it affects a students performance. What many students are doing during school are media multitasking and it distracts them from their work. Students are mostly on their phone while trying to pay attention. Researchers at the University of Connecticut shows multitasking is hurting students more than they think. Uconn researchers found that “People who frequently multitask in class
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Our brain is not meant to multitask and can only focus on certain things at once. When you try to do two things at once and one task requires full on attention multitasking falls apart. An article written by Douglas Merrill, he states that “Your brain just can’t take in and process two simultaneous, separate streams of information and encode them fully into short-term memory”. He also gives an example and says “When I was at Google, I attended lots of meetings in which others had their laptops open. It wasn’t that these people didn’t care about what was being said. It’s just that they had lots of other things to do, and juggling several tasks at once. Instead of multitasking do everything one step at a time because multitasking is not gonna get things done faster, You are just gonna waste time and learn nothing at
Our brain is not meant to multitask and can only focus on certain things at once. When you try to do two things at once and one task requires full on attention multitasking falls apart. An article written by Douglas Merrill, he states that “Your brain just can’t take in and process two simultaneous, separate streams of information and encode them fully into short-term memory”. He also gives an example and says “When I was at Google, I attended lots of meetings in which others had their laptops open. It wasn’t that these people didn’t care about what was being said. It’s just that they had lots of other things to do, and juggling several tasks at once. Instead of multitasking do everything one step at a time because multitasking is not gonna get things done faster, You are just gonna waste time and learn nothing at