In a few minutes, we are going to read "How Does the Brain Multitask" (Bixby & Scanlon, 2013, p. 31), but first, we want to get our ideas on the topic.
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- Think of three examples of multitasking from your daily life. Which situation is the easiest for you? Why?
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As I've already written in my blog post this morning, I multitask when I'm getting dressed for AUA. I can successfully put my shirt and pants on whilst also listening to music. This morning, the music was some old Freddie Mercury and Queen songs. Listening to and enjoying the music did not cause any problems with buttons or my belt.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I also multitask when I'm watching NetFlix and I get a phone call. I can usually continue watching while taking care of the conversation. But if the conversation is serious, or the film is really good, I pause the film - my experience is that I can't actually conentrate on both activities at the same time. If I'm watching rubbish that I don't care about, I concentrate on the phone call without a problem. If the phone call is something simple, I continue focussed on NetFlix.
What I definitely cannot do is read and follow a discussion at the same time, or read and listen to music. I think that's impossible. Some of my friends think that they successfully multitask such things, but I think they are wrong.
I totally agree with you on while you're reading you cannot do or listen to other things at the same time. From my experience, I liked reading while I was younger I read a lot in my junior high school and I was always read books in library so I didn't see this problem before until I left school and started to read at home which drives me crazy because my mum always turns on music or TV while I'm reading. Now I moved to another room while I want to read.
DeleteOne example of multitasking in my daily life are reading while listening to the music, chatting while walking, and eating while reading.
ReplyDeleteI think eating while reading is the easiest multitasking that I can do and normally do.
I need to eating while reading because sometime it make me more relax than only reading or eating.
I can eat and watch NetFlix, but I can't eat and read. If i'm reading something good, it needs my concentration, and eating gets in the way. If I enjoy what i'm eating, it's a distraction. If I don't enjoy what I'm eating ,it's a worse distraction! But eating a meal and chatting is fine.
DeleteI think many people try to do multitasking thing because they might think it is faster if doing something separate.
Deletebut I curious about how eating and reading make you more relax. I guess the book the you read while eating is should be your interesting one and you don't want to leave it even when you eat. Am I right?
In my daily life, I always do many things at one times such as listen to music while I'm walking to AUA, watching movie while I shower and playing cube while doing homework. I know that it's not a good way to do things at the same time and it causes my concentration on work. Worst, I take time longer to finish homework because I was doing other things. I find listen to music while I'm walking is the easiest situation.
ReplyDeleteI largely agree with Anya. I like her examples, which are very different to mine, but they are similar in that they are things that don't take too much concentration, except perhaps doing homework while playing with a Rubik's Cube. But if you play for a bit of relaxation in between bouts of homework, that seems OK to me.
DeleteI also like to play music while I'm having my shower.
I'm stunned that you are plying a cube while you are doing homework. I agree that it makes you lose concentrate to your homework. I also agree that walking with listening music is the easiest situation due to I always do this.
DeleteIn daily life, people have many activities to achieve and response. We have ability to perform more than one thing. Definitely, we do multitasking from our daily life. For me, I have to wake up early and then go to AUA. Now i'm studying English.
ReplyDeleteGreat to know your dairy life.
DeleteI think it's hard for me to come up with a multitasking experience. Although i have done it many times i dont think that its effective at all. For example while i was studying law i also.participated in financial competition and it was hard to concentrate; as a result, i focused on the competition and my grades dropped.
ReplyDeleteAnother example is when i read a book while watching a sieries that wasn't efficient as welll. First the series distracted me. So i ended up just watching the series.
The third example is a common one and i am doing it right now is to walk while typing pr reading. Id say im quite good at it. I never clashed anyone in front of me. When i was in the college i normally read while walking i found out that sometimes my memories work better than while sitting.
To answer your question, my last example is the easiest for me.