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Howard Pashler, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California San Diego, provides advice to teacherson the Dept. of Ed. website on how to best organize class time to minimize multitasking and maximize memory retention. Here's an NPR story about how multitasking affects learning.

(Click on the frontal lobe below to see another story about how we're not actually multitasking when we think we are... we're just switching very quickly from task to task, making us less efficient at each task individually).

Shown in red, the frontal lobe houses the "executive system" of the brain; it decreases in volume as we age. This region helps the brain decide which tasks to focus on and when to suppress irrelevant information. (From npr.org: "The Myth of Multitasking")
Shown in red, the frontal lobe houses the "executive system" of the brain; it decreases in volume as we age. This region helps the brain decide which tasks to focus on and when to suppress irrelevant information. (From npr.org: "The Myth of Multitasking")


Claudia Wallis, a current Spencer Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, wrote a story -- "The Multitasking Generation" -- for Time Magazine, March 2006.
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