http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=114 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=114&cpage=1#comment-304 Stephanie Gerding Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:55:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=114#comment-304 I was actually just reading a book that discussed multi-tasking. It is The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind, by Restak. I was hoping it would be applicable to my book research and talk about how technology is influencing how we learn, but it didn't really go there. It was a good read though, and he made it very approachable. He did state that multi-tasking is inefficient, that we really can't do more than one thing at a time and do it as well as if we were focusing on each task separately. And he says we lose time, b/c each switch of focus costs time (even just a fraction of a second). Though I know when I check email during a boring meeting, I am getting more done that I would otherwise! :)He does discuss ADD as well, so my be worth checking out at the library! I was actually just reading a book that discussed multi-tasking. It is The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind, by Restak. I was hoping it would be applicable to my book research and talk about how technology is influencing how we learn, but it didn’t really go there. It was a good read though, and he made it very approachable. He did state that multi-tasking is inefficient, that we really can’t do more than one thing at a time and do it as well as if we were focusing on each task separately. And he says we lose time, b/c each switch of focus costs time (even just a fraction of a second). Though I know when I check email during a boring meeting, I am getting more done that I would otherwise! He does discuss ADD as well, so my be worth checking out at the library!

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