Myth Busters: Can Humans Multitask?
Replying to an email, while listening to one of your favourite Podcasts, in addition to checking twitter to see what's new, all while working on an assignment. You are effectively multitasking, but... Did you reply to that email quickly? Are you understanding that podcast? Did you scroll through twitter to accomplish what you needed? And how is that assignment going? The Multitasking Myth Along with the idea of the digital native, is the idea (or myth) that this new generation of digital natives is skilled in multitasking. Multitasking is the ability to process two or more tasks simultaneously. I think multitasking is a skill people like to say they have, I always thought I was pretty good at multitasking. However, after some reflection on Kirschner and Bruyckere's "The myths of digital native and the multitasker," I am not sure I would describe myself as 'multitasker ' anymore. Kirschner and Bruyckere argue that multitasking for a human is n...