You Ll Never Learn By Annie Paul

In the article “You’ll Never Learn”, Annie Paul describes how multitasking while learning negatively affects students’ memory, grades and more. Paul begins by giving the results of an experiment done on how students study. Many of the students spent a lot of the time texting and on Facebook instead of actually studying. Paul then turns the attention to evidence from psychology suggesting that when students multitask their work ends up being of lower quality than if they would not have. According to researchers, the schoolwork takes longer to finish when multitasking because students waste time on nonsense. More mistakes can also result from distractions. Researchers also suggest that when students distract themselves from what they are trying