A Multi-tasking World to Love and Distrust
Lori Aratani, over at the Washington Post has written an interesting piece titled Teens Can Multitask, But What Are Costs? I suspect the cost is not only to teens. With exploding responsibilities, who doesn’t feel like they have way too much on their plate?
Lori Aratani, over at the Washington Post has written an interesting piece titled Teens Can Multitask, But What Are Costs? I suspect the cost is not only to teens. With exploding responsibilities, who doesn’t feel like they have way too much on their plate?
It's homework time and 17-year-old Megan Casady of Silver Spring is ready to study.
She heads down to the basement, turns on MTV and boots up her computer. Over the next half hour, Megan will send about a dozen instant messages discussing the potential for a midweek snow day. She'll take at least one cellphone call, fire off a couple of text messages, scan Weather.com, volunteer to help with a campus cleanup day at James Hubert Blake High School where she is a senior, post some com…