Friday, 25 November 2011
Multitasking
Professor Daniel Willingham looks at multi-tasking and concludes that even though kids today may like to multi-task, there's no reason to think that they are different than previous generations; they don't *need* to multi-task to be engaged and, like everyone else, kids today can't do two things at once as well as they can do one.
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I can sum up this video with two sentences.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, kids are better multitasking than adults, but this doesn't mean that they are going to do this things better than if they focus only on one.
The second sentence is that multitasking always carries a cost. So, if you have to do serious tasks you shouldn't do it simultaneously with another one.
I'm totally agree with this video, in my opinion multitasking doesn't allow you to use your time better as the more things you do simultaneously, the worse you do them.
According to the researchers, young people are better than adult doing multitasking, but it always carries a cost, because our attention only can be concentrated in one thing, the second task will be less effective.
ReplyDeleteIn some cases, the music appears be an exception if it hasn't lyrics.
"Kids spend seven and a half hours each day using electronic devices and most of this time they are multitasking". This is my phrase because I think computers and other electronic devices make easy do multitasking. And Yes, I confess I love multitasking but when I have to focus on something which require my entire attention, I need silence and only do that thing.
ReplyDeleteI think sometimes the cost about the narrator is talking about is worth taking because there are some things you could do mechanically and without focusing completely in doing them.
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ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I have to say that I've been very surprised by the information of this video. I don't know if it all is true, but in that case, I must admit that I thought today's children were able to multitask better than an adult person, just because of the abusive use of techonologies. In my view, with all the techologies that are arising nowadays, we haven't no choice but being able to multitask.
I think that children are better than adults in multitasking because of their mind's plasticity. But I also think that doing every strong activity in a time is better than multitasking for children and adults.
ReplyDeleteMultitasking is the reflex of our daily lifestyle. We are always trying to do more things that we really can and more things that we really need. This make us in mediocre and unhappy people. People who have forgotten that happiness can be achieved in the small things and people who don´t remember the power of a conversation between friends.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe that children are used to doing a lot of things during their daily routine, something like playing football, basketball, studying music, etc; for this reason they have learnt to do multitasking to spend their time. When I was a child, I never did theses kind of thing, I only had to go to class.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Daniel Willingham tell us something that we already knew: "If you want to do something well is best to focus on one task at a time". But to me one of the most interesting things in this video is the information about music and multitasking, because when I listen to music that´s what I´m doing! (I pay all my attention to the music and lyrics). I used to wonder if somebody is abel to focus on something and listen to music at the same time, because it´s not possible to me. I thought that music without lyrics was more appropriate to do anything else (multitasking), but the truth is that researches don´t agree about this point and there are different opinions: is not good, it´s good if you listen just music (no lyrics), it doesn´t matter. So there is not a good answer.
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