The Negative Effects Of Multitasking On Students

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Have you ever heard this saying “attention is expensive that’s why it’s easier not to pay.” I was taking a course last fall with a few friends. The class we had sign-up for had a lecture that didn’t allow internet devices and was very keen on his rules. After he explained his reasons and gave the class a challenge, he said that the people who discarded the devices will get higher grades verse does who keep using they phones. I decided not to use my devices but my friends differed and claimed that they are great at multi-tasking. “Multitasking reduces your efficiency and performance because your brain can only focus on one thing at a time. When you try to do two things at once, your brain lacks the capacity to perform both tasks successfully”…show more content…
In my experience this is true especially in university because of the level of freedom we are given, we tend to check our phone whenever we are alerted and then the lecturer has to stop in the middle of a point to address the lack of attention received then has to start again which is a time reductive. Clay Shirky in his article, states” social information is immediately and emotionally engaging. Both the form and the content of a Facebook update are almost irresistibly distracting, especially compared with the hard slog of coursework. (“Your former lover tagged a photo you are in” vs. “The Crimean War was the first conflict significantly affected by use of the telegraph.” Spot the difference?) ” The difference is clear emotional form of social information will attract students easier than coursework because it comes across as work than a fun…show more content…
Child often pass notes in class, socialize with each other and this often cause a distraction and pro-long tasks in the classroom. Lecturers have now learnt to live with this problem but keeping it at a minimum. If Shirky allow devices to co-exist with this problem try to keep at a minimum will be almost be impossible to achieve, Students will argue that the solutions is simply to multi-task which based on Shirky research has negative effects. Shirky research shows how the combination of nearby peer effect and multi-tasking works based on student performances” participants who were in direct view of a multitasking peer scored lower on a test compared to those who were not. The results demonstrate that multitasking on a laptop poses a significant distraction to both users and fellow students and can be detrimental to comprehension of lecture content.” They is no need to argue with facts. I found that as a student I retain less from a lecture when jump between slides and
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