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Kirsten
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Technology and Multi-tasking
February 19, 2008 - 10:05 AM
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Do you think technology has made our generation better at multitasking? Or is it making us less productive/efficient by providing more distractions? (Why?)
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Nigel A
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Re: Technology and Multi-tasking
March 3, 2008 - 12:29 PM
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Having technology does help us multitask better because it helps us to be efficient in our work.
For instance, the blackberry helps us multi-task will messaging, internet, contacts, calendars, etc.
Sometimes it can be bad because people are enthralled into their blackberry. Hence the term crack berry.
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Re: Technology and Multi-tasking
July 12, 2008 - 12:39 PM
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To be honest, I don't know.
I have indeed learned to work on documents while listening to music and chatting, but I can affirm that my academic performance (although not my general learning) has decreased in quality since I met the digital media. 
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Anuradha Karunamuni
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Re: Technology and Multi-tasking
July 13, 2008 - 01:46 AM
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True...We have to agree with the fact that technology plays a major role when it comes to multi-tasking in almost all aspect in the current society. It is achieved by hiding the complexities of most processes, improving the processing capabilities, etc which leads to higher performance/ efficiency.
In my point of view this can be considered as a fact which supports individuals/ organizations in taking initiatives of being creative and moving forwards.
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Re: Technology and Multi-tasking
July 17, 2008 - 12:13 PM
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FaerieGirl wrote:
To be honest, I don't know.
I have indeed learned to work on documents while listening to music and chatting, but I can affirm that my academic performance (although not my general learning) has decreased in quality since I met the digital media. *
You're perfectly right. * To be candid, Technology has brought in lots of distractions which invariably affects our productivity as human.
True, that all things have the good and bad side. I'd say that the good side of technology has been awesome, but, on the other side of it, Distraction, which has paved way for low productivity, brain-drain!!!
This post was edited on: 2008-07-18 at 12:59 PM by: Olowotee
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Re: Technology and Multi-tasking
August 4, 2008 - 07:38 PM
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I've found through experience that the point of technology is to make our lives easier, primarily by making individual tasks easier. This is a double-edged blade, however -- word processors and spreadsheets and search engines have made writing and research and calculations much, much faster and easier than in the past. But iPods and MSN and Facebook have made music and chatting to our friends and looking at pictures just as easy and twice as distracting, and the same search engine that helps us do legitimate research becomes a swirling black hole of fodder for procrastination, simply by typing "celebrity gossip" instead of "american revolution." Basically, the easier we make our work through technology, the easier it is to slack off as well! It all comes down to the character and discipline of the individual, and how well we are able to concentrate and prioritize with as many distractions as benefits.
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Re: Technology and Multi-tasking
August 22, 2008 - 10:35 PM
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According to John Medina, in his recently published "Brain Rules," The brain can only focus on one thing at a time. We are not multi-taskers. All of his evidence comes from peer-reviewed honest-to-god research journals. In fact, he goes into detail about the "two-edgedness" of technology and productivity.
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