The Impact Of Multitasking On Students

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In the article Mini-Multitaskers it discusses many different things and brings up a lot of interesting points. The article starts off detailing how most youth believe that multitasking boosts your productivity, when in reality there is no boost and it actually takes longer to get things done while multitasking. The article then goes on to say It’s not only at home that kids are multitasking, they are also doing it in the classrooms shown by reports by teachers seeing an increasing rate of cell phones and other electronic gadgets being used inside the classroom. Since text messaging during class isn’t just a high tech version of passing notes it its demand for attention shows that multitasking may impact student’s ability to learn as well. it

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