...zero-tolerance policy when it comes to cell phone use during class, while others might see it as a “learning tool” to boost students’ excitement in education. In the end, they are used, both overtly and covertly in classroom settings, despite the rules of not doing so. It is undeniable that cell phones are an integral part of college life and culture. However, cell phone use affects negatively academic performance because it distracts students from academic activities and it increases multitasking and task switching. First of all, students’ cell phone use is a distraction in academic courses. These devices enable students to access any electronic media such as text messages, videos, social media and the Internet at any time. As young generations are used to be entertained, this can potentially decrease the attention in the classroom and disrupt others while studying. For example, a ringing cell phone in class can interrupt the professor from giving instructions for a final test, and deter the entire class from listening. Accordingly, it encourages multitasking and task switching, which are negatively related to academic performance. Using the example above, the student will have to “redirect” his attention to turn down the volume and shift his full attention from the professor. This is called task switching. Peter Bregman wrote in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network that multitasking can reduce productivity by as much as 40%, increase stress and cause a 10-point fall in IQ. The...
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...Multitasking: Does this skill speed up our work? When applying for a job that deals with fast-paced working environment, there is almost always a required interpersonal skill in the job description that says “Should have excellent multitasking skills” or “Must have ability to multitask” that has not been given sufficient attention by employers, employees, and job seekers. Hence, to explore and understand the term “multitasking” more, it is important to look at some definitions. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online) defines multitasking as “perform[ing] multitasking; […] executing a number of tasks concurrently” (“Multitask”). Also, according to Sanbonmatsu, et al “Multi-tasking involves concurrent performance of two or more functionally independent tasks with each of the tasks having unique goals involving distinct stimuli (or stimulus attributes), mental transformation, and response outputs” (1). By reviewing these definitions, this particular skill seems like a practice people habitually do very often nowadays, such as reading a book while listening to music or writing e-mails while chatting over the phone. Therefore, we, as job applicants, might confidently apply and assure employers that we are very good multitaskers without knowing the risks behind multitasking itself. Moreover, employers neither have sufficient awareness of the effects of multitasking on their resources nor have enough knowledge to justify this skill being included in specific job description...
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...Anne Kerry Osias 02/23/2012 How does bilingualism influence our world? The 15th Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau said, “A bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one – and it is a richer state” which analogues that bilingualism is a premium appliance that is transfiguring our world. Furthermore, being bilingual will provide the aptitude of conversing with foreign peers and traveling in diverse countries, upsurge various career contingency that will enhance our financial system, and improved at multitasking and have less possibility to build up Alzheimer. Moreover, President Barack Obama mentioned in Georgia that bilingualism is a “powerful tool” and "We should have every child speaking more than one language"(Bellantoni C. 2008). Bilingualism will allow any American child to converse in another language and expose himself/herself to the world. By being bilingual, it will amplify his/her desire to take the risk of traveling in other countries. For instance, numerous Europeans speak English, French, and German. These people will most likely visit countries that have these languages as their natal languages. These tourists will not be afraid to expose themselves to a diverse country and sundry culture because they have a “richer state.” On the other hand, bilingualism will thrive the tourism economy over the world. In addition, bilingualism will expand diverse...
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...Distraction, an issue that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else, happens to everyone, every day whether it is realized or not. Multitasking, the handling of more than one task at the same time by a single person, also an everyday issue that most people do not even think about being an issue to their everyday life, but little do they know without this type distraction they could get forty percent more of their work done. Distraction is everywhere, and with distraction comes multitasking, this combination is something that should be avoided if possible. Focusing on one task has been the biggest issue with the creation of the internet and smartphones. Dewatripont mentions in his paper, “focusing on the two-task case for...
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...Daniel J. Levitin, director of the Laboratory for Music, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University, compares multitasking to a seesaw in the brain (par. 4). Levitin goes on to say that the brain in constantly switching back and forth between the task-positive network, when all of a person’s attention is put onto a specific task, and the task-negative network, when a person isn’t focused and is daydreaming (par. 4). This can become strenuous on the brain and make a person feel as if they have too much going on (par. 4). Faria Sana et al., authors for Computers and Education, state that multitasking is a part of our everyday lives (par. 1). In addition, Marc E. Weksler and Babette B. Weksler, experts at the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center, state that people believe that multitasking is more successful than it really is (385). Weksler and Weksler go on to explain that studies suggest that almost all people try to do more than one thing at a time, but at the price of jeopardizing their performances on each task at hand (386). One example of a person who tries to multitask is a student. Often, students try to do more than one task at a time, like text and listen to their teacher...
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...Computer Addiction: Defining the Problem and Finding the Solution In today’s society, it is an acceptable idea for people to obtain information via the computer and the internet. With most things in life, there are disadvantages. Computer technology has shown that there are many disadvantages in using this device. Computer addiction, an ongoing problem, causes problems such as addictive behavior, obsession and multitasking dilemmas. What are the disadvantages of using the Internet? The internet teaches us how to interact with people and places all over the world. There are downfalls to this convenience that we are not told about beforehand. Some of these downfalls occur as psychological disorders, addictions, obsessions and in multitasking. Computer addiction is an ongoing problem in 2015. We need to find a solution. Computer addiction fits the definition of a psychological disorder, a psychological disorder of thought or emotion, a more neutral term than mental illness. For example, Sharon Jayson in her article in USA Today refers to experts who think technology is “rewiring our brains.” Psychological disorders like anxiety, narcissism, addictions and compulsive behaviors that people have are due to excessive computer use. Mary Sykes Wiley, agreeing with Jayson, states that being on the computer is like Cybercoke. It’s an instant high, zooming from link to link. Emily Listfield also uses Jayson’s same words to indicate that the computer internet may even be “rewiring...
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...it because I was too busy multitasking… First off, this is written as a business novel. Lately, I have been really weary about business novels. For one, I’m not a novel reader and, since The Goal, the only business novels I’ve liked and gotten through are SHORT ones, including All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe’s Garage: World Class Manufacturing Made Simple and The Ice Cream Maker: An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality The Key Ingredient in Everything You Do (my review here). This book, written by business coach Dave Crenshaw, tackles the idea of “multitasking” — that we can do two things at once. If you think about multitasking from a Lean perspective, you might think about the practices of Standardized Work. In a factory, standardized work assumes a person can really only do one thing at a time. At most, you might reach for a part with your left hand while simultaneously reaching for a tool with your right. But, this is a relatively simple task that, in a repetitive manufacturing environment, can be done without thinking and through a lot of muscle memory. In professional settings, we often trick ourselves into thinking we can multitask. While on conference calls, people play Minesweeper or surf the web. This works, except for when you realize you haven’t been listening or someone calls on you and you can’t answer — it’s embarrassing. Nurses and other medical professionals are often the queens (and kings) of multitasking, or so they think. Can we really...
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...Sheila May V. Domingo BSBA-4L 07-01-15 Related Literature Impact of Social Networking Websites on Students Author: Shahzad Khan Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 5 No. 2 http://aupc.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/V5I2-5.pdf According to Charlene Li et al (2007) student activity on social networking sites focuses on communicating with each other. The most popular activities done by students and users on social networking sites revolve around looking at profiles of one another, searching for someone here and there, or updating one’s own profile, eavesdropping (sensing others activities on social networking websites and analyzing their posts). Media and content related activities like looking for an event, watching online videos, or listening to music and news. The ratios of these common activities which are almost practiced by almost every social networking websites user are calculated. Greenhow & Robelia (2009), Madge et al (2009) & Selwyn (2009) point of view social networking websites best serve educational goal and objectives by connecting students through such informal methods as it allows student through the process of collaborative sense making. Some of social networking websites are specifically specified for educational environment including linkedin.com which is fully featured for education purpose and let user to updates his educational credential and make a professional connections. In addition to the above statement Ellision et al (2007)...
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... Mr. Arvind Kumar 7th semester [C.S.E. 1707372 Department] ABSTRACT iOS is Apple's mobile operating system developed originally for the iPhone, and later deployed on the iPod Touch and iPad as well. It is derived from Mac OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation, and is therefore a Unix-like operating system, by nature. In iOS, there are four abstraction layers: the Core OS layer, the Core Services layer, the Media layer, and the Cocoa Touch layer. The operating system uses roughly 500 megabytes of the device's storage. Version 4, announced in April 2010, introduced multitasking as well as several business-oriented features, including encryption for email and attachments. At the WWDC 2010 keynote on June 7, 2010, Apple announced that iPhone OS had been renamed iOS. Apple licenses the trademark for "iOS" from Cisco Systems (who own IOS), the same company with which Apple had earlier settled a dispute over the "iPhone" trademark. iOS 4 was released on June 21, 2010, three days before the iPhone 4. Staggering product launches reduces strain on Apple's servers. iOS 4 is the first version of the OS to be a free upgrade on the iPod touch; Apple had charged $9.99 for earlier upgrades. Apple previously announced that iPad users with 3.x software would receive a free upgrade to the next major (4.x) release. New features...
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...human resources skill: 1. Organization 2. Multitasking 3. Discretion and Ethics 4. Dual Focus 5. Employee Trust 6. Fairness 7. Dedication to Continuous Improvement 8. Strategic Orientation 9. Team Orientation I believe one of the HR skills that I have is organization because in everything I do from school work to my wrenches in my toolbox, I have to have everything in a certain place. This allows me to find anything that I need from an assignment from my Marketing class I took several terms ago to a 9/16 wrench in my tool box. There are 2 other HR skills that I believe I have a fairly good handle on and those are Fairness and Team Orientation. Although for the most part I would rather work alone than with a group of people, I understand that there are times when working within a group can be beneficial. I also understand that not everyone within the group will be the same; we all are unique in our own way. In a group setting, everyone in the group needs to find a way to work together to complete the job or project. The 2 areas of HR skills that I have the most trouble with are Multitasking and Dual Focus. For anyone that knows me, once I start a project I have to see it to its conclusion without diverting my attention to something else. This sometimes gets me into trouble with deadlines because I will have too much focus on one assignment and another assignment is be neglected. Multitasking to me seems to be an interruption to a job I could...
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...Discrete Structure To be submitted to: Mr. Roger Intong Faculty BITE DEPARTMENT CATHERINE PIANO BSIT2 DESIGN * ------------------------------------------------- Device type: * Tablet * ------------------------------------------------- OS: * Windows (8) * ------------------------------------------------- Dimensions: * 11.97 x 7.46 x 0.39 inches (304 x 189.4 x 9.9 mm) * Weight: * 26.46 oz (750 g) the average is 17.4 oz (496 g) DISPLAY * ------------------------------------------------- Physical size: * 11.6 inches * ------------------------------------------------- Resolution: * 1366 x 768 pixels * ------------------------------------------------- Pixel density: * 135 ppi * ------------------------------------------------- Technology: * LCD * ------------------------------------------------- Colors: * 16 777 216 * ------------------------------------------------- Touchscreen: * Multi-touch * Features: * Light sensor MULTIMEDIA * ------------------------------------------------- Music player: * Filter by: * Album, Artist * Features: * Album art cover, Background playback * Speakers: * Stereo speakers TECHNOLOGY * Data: * LTE, HSPA (unspecified) OTHER FEATURES * ------------------------------------------------- Sensors: * Accelerometer * Voice recording ...
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...Mobile System Paper Lamoni Woulard CIS/207 10/20/14 VICKIE SCHUBERT-MARTIN Mobile System Paper Technology changes every day. It is beginning to become intertwined with how he handle everyday tasks. One very important mobile application that has changed the way technology is being used and seen is the iOS. This software developed by Apple was technologically advanced to improve the user’s interaction with everyday tasks. Over the years the operating system has been expanded with many features that change how it is used in everyday use. The development of this application is being expanded more and more every day. How is iOS used? iOS (previously iPhone OS originally released June 29, 2007) includes a user interface that is based on the concept of direct manipulation. Direct manipulation, which uses multi-touch gestures, has interface control elements which consist of sliders, switches, and buttons. The interface elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons, which includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch, and reverse pinch. The features of iOS include a home screen, folders, notification center, and much more. There are 40 million users who have interpreted this mobile application into their everyday lives. The home screen, also known as “SpringBoard”, displays different application icons and a dock where users can pin frequently used apps. This screen appears whenever the user unlocks the device. Folders on iOS have developed since the introduction with...
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...has benefitted this generation in many ways. Globalisation has occurred as a result of these sites, making the world more interconnected, and often serving as a tool to help raise awareness of the events that happen around the world that are...
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...This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier’s archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright Author's personal copy Computers in Human Behavior 26 (2010) 1237–1245 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/comphumbeh FacebookÒ and academic performance Paul A. Kirschner a,*, Aryn C. Karpinski b a Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC), Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419AT Heerlen, The Netherlands The Ohio State University, The College of Education and Human Ecology, The School of Educational Policy and Leadership, 29 West Woodruff Avenue, 210 Ramseyer Hall, Columbus, OH 43210 b article info Keywords: Facebook Social networking software Grade point average Academic performance abstract There is much talk of...
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...relationship between Facebook™ activity and academic performance for an African American sample population. The study was conducted at a large, four-year, private university in the Mid-Atlantic. All undergraduate, African American students enrolled in the College of General Studies, School of Health Sciences, and School of Education comprised the sample population. Volunteer participants completed a Facebook™ Activity Survey, which is an instrument used to collect semester grade point averages (GPAs), time-use of Facebook™, multitasking information, type of Facebook™ activities, and demographic information. The results of the survey were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression statistics. The analysis showed the strength of the relationship between the predictor variables (average daily minutes of using Facebook™, demographic data, academic data, daily minutes of multitasking, and types of Facebook™ activities used while multitasking) and the criterion variable (semester GPA). The results of the...
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