Can kids (teens) really multi-task?

[sashimi]

*I* maintain the opinion that \"multi-tasking\" is the world's MOST OVER-RATED \"virtue\".


It should be banned in kids, adults and especially in the office! :x :x

[ChiefKiasu]

schellen:

... forget to chew (or worse, forget about the spoon hovering in the air). :roll:

Kekekke... perfect example of why all those new media claims about the ability of gen-Z kids to multi-task is all hogwash.

[ChiefKiasu]

sashimi:

*I* maintain the opinion that \"multi-tasking\" is the world's MOST OVER-RATED \"virtue\".


It should be banned in kids, adults and especially in the office! :x :x

Sashimi... I guess you must be the boss of the office :lol: Don't ban my stock market surfing... pleeazzz!

[sashimi]

ChiefKiasu:

sashimi:

*I* maintain the opinion that \"multi-tasking\" is the world's MOST OVER-RATED \"virtue\".


It should be banned in kids, adults and especially in the office! :x :x

Sashimi... I guess you must be the boss of the office :lol: Don't ban my stock market surfing... pleeazzz!

Not at all! In fact, it's because of the way bosses never bother to reply emails, never read the reports, then email us to ask for the report we sent 2 weeks ago... that convinced me multi-tasking only serves to divide your mind into more parts than it can handle....

stock marketing surfing is not multi-tasking lah... that one is your personal life.

[Observer]

The only multi tasking my son is allowed to do is hearing music in MP3 player while eating. :lol:


For me and wife, happy that he finish food without complaining (he's a damn fuzzy eater).

Watching TV and reading his school books - NO
Watching TV and reading his story books - Yes

So, we can allow the so-called multitasking in some area which doesn't affect them academically or physically.

[mintcc]

rememember when I was studying I also tell my parents that I am \"multi tasking\" when I want to watch TV of course not much got in during TV time.

[csc]

ya, i only allowed my daughter to \"double-task' ie listening to her ipod when she is doing mundane homework like 习字，抄范文，corrections and the like which do not require much 'brain' work. She says she is a audio learner and therefore needs music accompaniment while doing work. :lol:

[schellen]

csc:

ya, i only allowed my daughter to \"double-task' ie listening to her ipod when she is doing mundane homework like 习字，抄范文，corrections and the like which do not require much 'brain' work. She says she is a audio learner and therefore needs music accompaniment while doing work. :lol:

I don't think that is what an audio learner is unless she is listening to the homework being \"read\" to her while she writes it down.

Anyway, I need music to work too cos without it, work is soooo dreary. For example, when I had deadlines for essays during schooldays, I needed to listen to music while doing them. I generally get Bs so I figure that must have helped. When I started postgrad dip studies a few years ago, I did the same thing too but my DH will complain cos the music I listen to is rock, metal, rap, etc. He insists that only classical music is good for studying, to which I reply that classical music will only make me fall asleep.

Anyway, what sashimi said about multi-tasking at office is probably typing work e-mail while answering work phone call, etc. I make sure that when I visit KSP forum at work, I only pay attention to forum and nothing else.....until boss comes out of his room lah. sashimi's only multi-tasking at home is probably reading magazines or books while in the toilet. :lol:

[csc]

schellen, what you shared is funny. :lol:

you and sashimi make such a cute couple. :romance:

One child told me the other day he was tying to complete his assignment in his assessment book while in the toilet... Gosh! :!:

Actually mothers are the ones who are good at multi-tasking too... on the phone while doing laundry and keeping an eye on the stove... on the phone, checking email or surfing and photocopying documents etc..

[pinky]

There was this newspaper article sometime back about students multi-tasking-doing homework+checking SMS+checking email+watching TV snippets etc and the student claimed that she needed only a couple of hrs sleeping!! Pity their brains-overworked and insufficient rest. Sorry but I am not impressed at all at her 'capabilities'.

As to multi-tasking at workplace, I define it as doing several jobs/projects at the same time. When I was a Sales Manager, I had to handle admin/accounts/HR/sales/purchasing/secretarial duties as well. I became a Jack of all trade but master of none. Consolation was that I got to learn more besides sales and that what kept me doing that for almost 20 years till I finally quit my job. Bet in this hard times, there are many people out there who have to shoulder such burden now.