How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn?
“Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might be more difficult because of it. Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 in all—opened their books and turned on their computers.”
via bitly http://bit.ly/169ucxC http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/how-does-multitasking-change-the-way-kids-learn/
“Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might be more difficult because of it. Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 in all—opened their books and turned on their computers.”
via bitly http://bit.ly/169ucxC http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/how-does-multitasking-change-the-way-kids-learn/
