The evolution of technology has been apparent in a society. We have been having a lot of opportunities to use technology in our life; therefore, we might not have days without using technology. Although technology might give people disadvantages, such as physical or mental issues, they are able to avoid having the issues by appropriate the uses of technology. People are able to have various kinds of information with technology; especially, internet helps the user to find a wanted source quickly and easily. Most of people might notice that technology gives the user more advantages than disadvantages. As the advantages of using technology on learning, people are able to share their ideas quickly and easily, to have the abilities of multitasks, …show more content…
Some people multitask unconsciously in their life, but unconscious multitask does not mean an inappropriate action because situations might require them to do unconsciously. Videos, prints, radios, gaming formats allow people to multitask a lot (Purcell & Rainie, 2014). People in workplaces they have so many opportunities to multitask; for example, people might listen to radios from their computers while they print papers out. In our developed society, there are no days which we avoid multitasking. Americans were gaining 100,500 words per day in 2008 (Purcell & Rainie, 2014). Multitasking enables people to have the amount of the words, and they must have a lot of information. Although some people might think that technology prevents people from doing good performance. According to Carr (2010), the net makes people have constant distractions and interruptions. The user of internet can definitely have a lot of information and use helpful tools for learning. If we are able to have a lot of information by multitasking, we are able to have various kinds of knowledge. In a classroom, we might see some people who type on laptops while they listen to a teacher. As an experiment at Stanford University, 49 people who did often multitask performed less than 52 people who avoided multitasking (Carr, 2010, 50). In fact, the 49 people were supposed to multitask heavily, but we do not need to have multitasking heavily, and what we
Students may easily lose their attention and concentration with easy access to such incredibly rich store of information. With such new technologies as television, internet and social networks, people nowadays tend to multitask more often as they have easy access to a large amount of information. However, such easy access may sometimes be a distraction. Study “Your Brain on Computers” reports that heavy multitaskers perform up to 20% worse on most tests compared to performance of light multitaskers. Working efficiency of people, who multitask, is claimed to be significantly lower. The same is with concentration. (Crovitz 353) As a result, they are not engaged in working process. Students tend to be easily distr...
In the article,“Multitasking is actually kind of a problem for kids and adults” by Hayley Tsukayama the author went into detail about how parents and their children view their personal media habits. One of the ways that the parents and children viewed their media habits as was feeling the need to respond to texts and notifications immediately. “More than 1,200 parents and teens surveyed, 48 percent of parents and 72 percent of teens said they felt the need to respond to texts and notifications immediately, almost guaranteeing distractions throughout the day” (Tsukayama). This article can be connected to “The Epidemic of Media Multitasking While Learning” both of the articles discussed the different factors of media multitasking among individuals. The article from The Washington Post website gave great insight on multitasking and rather it is bad for students when it comes to learning. I believe that the issue being discussed is very relevant because if students are easily distracted by technology while in their learning environment it results in them not learning
Performing well in at certain tasks and retaining information both require a high level of attention. Multitasking requires that this attention be divided amongst different tasks. As a result, the some of the attention used for a certain task must now be used for other tasks, which affects the factors needed to complete it. Referring to an experiment that was discussed earlier, Wieth and Burns (2014) stated that even with the reward, the promise of incentive could not override the limits of people’s attention. Retaining information requires undivided attention. The key word is ‘undivided.’ According to this experiment, it is nearly impossible to have the same high level of focus while working on multiple tasks that a person would while working on one task. Once someone has reached the end of their attention span, their performance begins to falter. In a final experiment involving media multitasking and attention, Ralph, Thomson, Cheyne, and Smilek (2014) stated that multitasking can lead to mind wandering and lapses in attention, which distracts people from their tasks. These results show that once their attention is divided, it can lead to distractions and difficulty completing different tasks. It is difficult to complete one assignment while focusing on several others at the same time. Multitasking affects the attention needed for a task, which can affect everything
This experimental investigation has to do with how human’s attention work. It is based on a replication of the well-known “Stroop Effect” carried out on 1935 by John Ridley Stroop. The aim of this experiment was to demonstrate how hard it is for a person’s attention to be divided in different tasks, by making the participants read a series of three stimuli which consisted of: 1) words of colors in black ink, 2) words of colors in their actual font color, and 3) color words with different ink, where the participant read the font instead of the word present. The research hypothesis supposed that selective attention is as easy to be performed visually as well as audibly. The controlled variable of the experiment were the black ink color words, while the second stimuli was considered to be experimental variable. There were two independent variables that were the color words corresponding to their color and the number of mistakes each participant made in each category. The dependent variable was the third stimuli, where the participant read its font rather than the word presented. The experiment was completed within a group of sixteen participants from an age range of 13-16 (eight girls and eight boys in total). The average time and mistakes in each variable was the following: 9.28 seconds with no mistakes, 9.53 seconds with one mistake, and 25.53 seconds and an average of two mistakes. In conclusion, the observations were that it took much more time in the last stimuli, which was the one that divided attention into two tasks. Implication findings would be the modicum amount of participants in the experiment.
It seems our society is still trying to obtain the ever so elusive principle of time. By multitasking we’ve have developed the perception that by performing two or more different tasks simultaneously that we can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete on single task; and once we’ve familiarized ourselves with a multitasking function we can achieve our ultimate goal, increasing our productivity. For instance the workplace overemphasizes multitasking to point that it’s a must needed job requirement on job applications (Otto). Multitasking is so important in our society that it becomes a necessity and often at times is inadvertently promoted in classrooms, tell-all books or celebrity biographies. You know the ones where someone famous talks about balancing work, parenting, school and successfully fulfilling their dreams. That misconception seems to have brought on the mentality of “if they can do it, I can do it too.” And in most cases we can’t because some pieces of the puzzle were missing in the tell all.
In Hermann Maurer’s, “Does the Internet Make Us Stupid?” he shows that Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California in San Francisco is “profoundly worried about the cognitive consequences of the constant distraction and interruptions the Net bombards us with. The long term effect on the quality of our intellectual lives could be ‘deadly’”(Maurer 49). If an expert in the brain field is worried, then others should also be more cautious about the devices they use. Mark Becker suggests that “media multitasking may be uniquely associated with deficits in basic cognitive processes such as the ability to successfully filter out irrelevant information and ignore distraction” (Becker 132). People do not give one task their full attention, they are always multitasking such as doing homework while texting and listening to music. People think multitasking will help them complete tasks quicker; however, in the long run they are changing the functions of their brain and even damaging it. According to Nicholas Carr in his novel “The Shallows”:
In the article, “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus,” Alina Tugend centralizes around the negative effects of multitasking. She shows that often with multitasking, people tend to lose focus, lack work quality, have an increase in stress, and in the end she gives a solution to all these problems. Tugend conveys her points by using understandable language, a clear division of subjects, and many reliable sources, making her article cogent.
As human beings, it is becoming more of a second nature to us to multi-task. As the world is technologically advancing more and more every day, there are becoming more distractions. Social-media is flourishing, reality TV show ratings are going up, and humans even unintentionally check their phones every two minutes. In this day of age, multi-tasking is proving to promote inefficiency rather than productivity.
Christine Rosen, editor of The New Atlantis and the author of “The Myth of Multitasking,” explains how technology in the modern world has allowed people the ability to constantly multitask, at the same time, exposing the human body to negative long-term effects of the body. Nowadays, people are constantly on the run trying to finish their daily tasks. In order for this to happen, they multitask in order to accomplish their activities. Not only do humans incorporate multitasking in their own lives, they also are found doing this at their jobs. Jobs require their workers to multitask especially through the use of technology. Aditionally, multitasking has been known to be dangerous in the work field as well as while driving. Workers are found to be worn down by intense multitasking. Because of this, people should minimize the use of multitasking in order to avoid health problems. Furthermore, research has been conducted on multitasking by fMRI scans to find out the effects multitasking has on the brain. The effects that were found is memory loss caused by stress through multitasking. In addition, research has also shown that people have a hard time learning while multitasking, therefore, they learn less. Due to this reason, children is greatly impacted because constant
Using everything more than its recommended doses have side effects, and the same is for the use of our technology. The use of technology and its accelerated innovation in our societies is affecting our life form different angles. From making disincentive our kids about valance, school shooting, lake of sexual boundaries, depression, lake of educational stander and so much more are all caused by the overuse of technology. After making my research questions, and reading the articles about the overuse and said effect of technology for my annotated bibliography, I will be able to present my research paper about the harms’ of technology and internet. My thesis will focus on the negative sid...
In the chapter “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era,” from The New Brain, written by Richard Restak, Restak makes some very good points on his view of multitasking and modern technology. He argues that multitasking is very inefficient and that our modern technology is making our minds weaker. Multitasking and modern technology is causing people to care too much what other people think of them, to not be able to focus on one topic, and to not be able to think for themselves.
A lot of people believe they can multitask but in reality they can´t. Multi-tasking actually hurts your brain. Our brains were made for focusing on one thing and one thing only and when you multi-task it is actually slowing your brain down. When people think the are multi-tasking they are actually going from one thing to another very quickly. When doing this, this causes really bad brain habits. Another thing that multitasking does is that it makes it more harder to focus and throw out all the information you do not need in your brain. A study was done at the University of London and it showed that people who were multi-tasking had an IQ of a person who skipped a night of sleep or a person who smokes marijuana. Multi-tasking has also shown
To understand this better, a research study was conducted by Eyal Ophir, Clifford Nass and Anthony Wagner, to see the results on cognitive control in media multitaskers. Firstly, they gave a two hundred sixty-two university
According to journalist Jim Taylor from Psychology Today, people may think they are multitasking, but they are actually “serial tasking.” “Rather than,” undertaking in concurrent events, They’re just “shifting from one task to another,” in swift progression. As a Result, Writer Brandon Keim from Nova Science Now, claims “Switching tasks also generates pulses of stress hormones,” this was activated long ago by searching for meals at the same time as keeping away from “predators. “ Now this is activated by the thousands of text messages received daily. Research shows “There’s a risk of stress levels becoming constant and high, which, besides threatening basic health, is known to hurt memory.” Multitasking is harming us in many different mentally ways that we aren't aware
A useful thing about internet is the electronic mail, as it gives us faster results than its regular and normal air mail. Internet gives information in any aspects of knowledge which is useful for student and for the business. Internet changes our life (and where sure to that). It gives us a lot of knowledge, advantages and disadvantage of course and we should be aware to that by using it and knowing what are those disadvantages. Though it gives a lot of advantages to us we should always look on the other side of it, for the reason of the social development growth especially to children. (Sonia79, 2005)