Multitasking Multitasking can be defined as the ability to do several things at the same time. Nowadays, in companies it seems to be a strong requirement for employees, since multitasking has to do with being efficient. Let’s say that it is something really bad for people, especially for children who are not aware of their mental activity. I strongly say that being multitasker disrupts the function of brain to learn. Multitasking is very dangerous for children because they lose the concentration and they became less productive in their schooling tasks. Most of time, children spend a lot of time for doing just one thing and unconsciously they do many things simultaneously, for example, while they are doing mathematical problems, they are talking to the close classmate just for fun, or when they take out the art materials and start working in arts, painting or cutting out papers, to play with them, simulating an airplane to throw though classmates and teacher’s heads. All those situations make children to be not concentrated and it shows they are less productive, because they spend too much time …show more content…
So, while the students are doing the required task, at the same time they are doing other thing. They can’t make connections between the specific task and their brain, so the most probable is that actually those students didn’t learn, because the brain was not prepared to learn in a right way. Let’s exemplify, when children use their cell phone to review social networks in class, they are being multitasking and they are not having all the attention into one thing to learn, then they get stressed and frustrated because they need to present the schoolwork on time and