"Our study, and other previous work, suggests that while people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less time, the reality is it extends the amount of time needed to carry out tasks and leads to more mistakes.
"We should resist the fashionable views of educational gurus that children can multi-task, and that we should adapt our education systems accordingly to keep up with the times."
I'm not sure playing on Facebook while you do homework or some other productive task should be called multi-tasking. Maybe it's just me but I would consider Facebook a distraction, not a task which can be "multi-d" with another task.
Among the comments to the story was this one, from "I'moverhere" in Britain: "Believe me, if it isn't Facebook, it's something else. There's always something ready to distract a bored mind. While you're at it why not do a similar survey relating to consoles, television, texting, radio, football practice and staring into space?
Well said, I'moverhere!! Smartest quote I've seen in the story yet.
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