E-mails pouring in, cell phones ringing, televisions blaring, podcasts streaming – the great media din that has become an expected part of our lives is one in which we ration our attention among many competing tasks. Unfortunately, Christine Rosen points to a spate of recent studies indicating that not only is multitasking a poor strategy for learning, the learning you do manage while multitasking is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.
The Myth of Multitasking
E-mails pouring in, cell phones ringing, televisions blaring, podcasts streaming – the great media din that has become an expected part of our lives is one in which we ration our attention among many competing tasks. Unfortunately, Christine Rosen points to a spate of recent studies indicating that not only is multitasking a poor strategy for learning, the learning you do manage while multitasking is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.