A gentle warning from a famous inventor:
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell, 1847 - 1922
Classroom Assignment
Every semester I give my students an assignment to do some on-line research on multitasking and to post their results on a bulletin board we use. Most of the students who do the assignment decide thatit would be a good thing not to multitask when they are doing their work or projects. Some of them even start to turn off the ipods and radios when they are working or driving. The decide this all on their own; all I have to do is get them to do the research.
Every semester a small handful of students report on articles that present multitasking as a good thing, and even perhaps offer tips on how to do it better. On closer inspection however, we usually find that the articles in favor of multitasking are written by organizations which manufacture or sell things that make multitasking possible.
You do the math.
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