You get home. Throw your backpack on the floor and grab out your laptop. Homework time right? Wrong. Many students before they start their homework they have to plug into their music or turn on the TV. And don't forget about Facebook, Pintrest, Tumblr, and Twitter being up on the screen while they work. In fact as I am typing this, I am guilty of multitasking. I know that all this multitasking isn't good for me and yet here I am; constantly flipping through the tabs and blaring my Breath Carolina. I have to step away from the situation as do other students, or nothing gets done. In order to do my Psychology homework, I have to award myself with looking at my phone or my Facebook to get through the section or the question. If I didn't have this system of reward to myself I wouldn't retain half of the knowledge I needed to pass my test.
In class I see this same thing happening. Multitaskers are every where. A girl that sits next to me in Psych and plays on her laptop all lecture wonders why she isn't getting higher marks. She told me that she couldn't understand why. She came to lecture everyday, but her learning capacity had been diminished by her multitasking ways, as had the teachings of the professor.
