Multi-Tasking (Not)
For this assignment ONLY, you can have your phones out today. Do this assignment as you would do an assignment from home. Do your best. Notice, I am not asking for your name, so this is anonymous.
Read this article:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/multitasking_while_studying_divided_attention_and_technological_gadgets.html
While reading, answer the following questions:
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My class period is:
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Choose
Period 1
Period 2
Period 3
Period 4
Period 5
Period 6
Period 7
According to your computer, what time is it right now?
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Answer this question before moving on to the article.
Time
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AM
PM
According to the article, one study conducted by psychology professor at California State University–Dominguez Hills, students’ “on-task behavior” started to decline around the ___minute mark
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1
2
5
10
15
According to the study, after 15 minutes, they spent ____ amount of time doing other things than their homework.
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Read the question carefully
15%
35%
65%
100%
Evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and ______ than if the work had their full attention
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Your answer
If you are paying attention to your phone, you (are / are not) paying attention to the lecture in the class or your assignment.
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are
are not
The most common digital activities students undertake while learning are:
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e-mail
talking
texting
social media
music
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Why are performing these above digital activities while doing homework bad, relating to the effect on schoolwork?
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Your answer
What sort of tasks (assignments) would it be acceptable to multi-task while doing them?
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Think about what the article said (pick 2)
keyboarding
reading a chapter in a textbook
putting away dishes
learning vocabulary words
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What are negative outcomes from multi-tasking?
select all that apply
it takes longer to complete the assignment because of stopping and starting
mental fatigue leads to mistakes
eyes get tired causing drowsiness
we remember that piece of information less well when our attention is divided during encoding
One way to help minimize distractions is to take a tech break. Explain what this means.
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Your answer
Studies suggest that their is a (positive/negative/neutral) correlation between students who use facebook (or social networking) in class and their GPA.
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positive
negative
neutral (no effect either way)
During this assignment, I did all of the following:
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checked e-mail
text/im
music
social networking (facebook, twitter, etc.)
browse the internet (youtube, news, etc.)
I focused on the assignment
Other:
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During this assignment, I would guess that was distracted for ___ (%) of the time.
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0%
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
100%
While doing homework assignments, I am more distracted by
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phone
computer / internet
According to your computer, what time is it right now?
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At the end of answering these questions.
Time
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AM
PM
Subtract your ending time from your beginning time. What is the total amount of time it took you to answer these questions?
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Hrs
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