I really like the article titled " Mastering Multitasking: It's part of every digital native's life. Can we help students do it right?". We have the policy of telling students to not use electronics in school. Of course, every other student is walking around with headphones. I really like this article because it said that "just say no", is not going to work. I totally agree. There are over 2000 students here and you can not get to all of them to take their headphones from them. So, this article suggests way to help them learn how to manage their electronics. First we have to teach them that using electronics while trying to learn is not helping them, but hurting them. So, the article says to teach them how their brain capacity is lower when listening to electronics.
"Students who are managing their busy lives may think they are accomplishing more by multitasking, but they are actually need more time to achieve the same level of performance on an academic task."
So many times, they students say listening to music helps them think. But, if I ask them if they have all A's they have to say no. So, this article suggest lesson plans to help student learn how to put their electronics away so they can learn something. I am going to refine the lesson plan and give to our Advisory Committee, so hopefully we can implement it school wide next year.
