When do we study? Learn? These are very important questions. In this news article they asked even a better question. How do we study? It is very common for people to sit down, while they are studying and doing homework, and turn on music, text, watch a movie. This article presented very important evidence that while we are plugged into the media our learning is inhibited. In this article it quotes: “The truth is you don’t really multitask, you just think you do; the brain can’t process two high-level cognitive things.”. How much do we learn from a math book if we are plugged into the web? How affective is our 'French Study' when we have head phones on? A professor of psychology, Harris M. Cooper, said, One of the things that homework is supposed to do for us is help us generalize where we feel we can learn.”
This problem has really concerned many people. We all need to be watching our self's and making sure we have adopted good study habits.
This makes so much sense! When I logged on to "Blogger" to create a post, I turned on some good old Rock music. I WAS DOING EXACTLY WHAT THIS ARTICLE WAS ABOUT! I was studying and doing homework while being plugged into my phone and listening to music. As soon as I read more into it I turned off the music. It grew silent, but I could think. I agree in that we all need to be more conscious about this. I really think this applies to more than studying though... it applies to all out door activities too. Shame on the runners who have ear phones in! We can not double-task. We all need to change the way we do somethings when it comes to involving the media.
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