Most of everyone in the nation owns some sort of computer or cellular device. In fact, there is a high percentage students who owns both of these electronic devices. They are used in every fashion of someone’s daily life. Students tend to use their electronic devices everywhere, including in the classroom or any public environment. In other words, students multitask in about any situation possible. In the article, “You’ll Never Learn!” Annie Murphy Paul states how students are always texting, emailing, talking on the phone, scrolling down various versions of social media, and listening to music. Everyone does it because it is considered to be a common part of life now. Therefore, it is really not seen as a terrible thing to do nowadays. There are supposedly some negative outcomes when it comes to multitasking and schoolwork. Paul stated in her article that the assignments, students do take longer to complete due to the distractions of other activities, and students will have to familiarize themselves with the same material all over again. If students have to do that much to understand anything, it means teaching them to begin with was a waste of time. That is also a major key on how multitasking may one day affect society. Earl Miller, a Picower professor of neuro-science at MIT, implies how humans simply cannot focus on more than one thing at a time in the article “The Myth of Multitasking”. That covers a lot about students and …show more content…
It all evolves around the gift of owning and using valuable electronic devices. Alike the students in the classroom, adults with jobs have the urgency to check on the media also. In the article “The Myth of Multitasking”, the BBC reported a research study that was funded by Hewlett-Packard. The Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, founded that, “Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana