Multitasking In Education

Over the past few decades, technology has brought immense changes to our society. It has completely altered the environment in which people live. The shift of the technology has globally changed the way people think, their values, capability, communication, negotiation, education, and transportation which also has improved the quality of their life. Today technology is widely demanded in such fields as in education, businesses, transportation, healthcare, and even in housing use as it makes the life of people to be easier and comfortable. Likewise, if one examines today modern education system, he or she can see that it helps students to be more developed, flexible and skillful. Nowadays, enormous educational institutions use modern technologies

Multitasking might harm a student in case if there is a bunch of activities performed at the same time. For example: "[stimulation] of the brain by multitasking may improve initial performance, but if there are too many stimuli, the activity becomes too taxing and creates a considerable decline in performance" (qtd in Jill). Evidently, if an undergraduate student might does some important assignment and at the same time play a video game, listen to the music, chat with friends, then he or she will be harmed by doing such kind of multitasking, because in that case will decline his or her concentration and the quality of work activity. Evidently, if for instance, there is a student who learns a foreign language and meanwhile doing homework he or she might use an electronic dictionary which is still a multitasking but performed wisely; because it would save his or her time meanwhile typing a word to translate instead of long searching though the book dictionary in order to translation one single word. Likewise, when the students attend the lecture they also do the multitasking by listening to the professor and making some hand notes which actually neither harm them nor their intelligence. In the same way if a student would come to a lecture and make some notes on his or her personal laptop that would be for him or her easier and quicker way to type down the lecture

Today, the undergraduate students are more involved in doing multitasking as it is time efficient and makes them to be more flexible in their performances. According to Russell Poldrack, professor of psychology at the University of California Los Angeles, the young generation has grown up by always doing multitasking which may lead that they are more skilled at it (qtd in Jill). Actually doing multitasking by using technology wisely would not harm the students if they perform tasks related only with their studies. While all undergraduate students are not mature enough to make the right decisions in how they spend their time, this kind of understanding of time management is a responsibility that the students must make individually. As a matter of fact there are a multitude of electronic applications that can help students manage their time appropriately. From one hand nobody knows what might happen to youth in the future and what are the outcomes would be from the multitask performing. Likely, the PEW research and internet project have found out that in 2020 the brain of young adults would be different from the elder generation as they will be more capable to multitask through personal and work related tasks (Anderson and Rainie). Further, they will learn more