Assignment 11

Assignment

Assignment 11

How does the female professor (Sherry Turkle) at MIT feel about students' ability to multitask?

ANS#1: Professor Sherry Turkle said about multitasking ability of students is that, students have done disservice with themselves by thinking that multitasking will serve them a best purpose. On different important things students cannot think at the same time.

How did Professor David Jones (MIT) explain the fact that these extremely intelligent students at MIT average only 75% on their mid term exam?

ANS#2: He explains that in his given mid-term in class, he asked obvious and easy questions. That were delivered them in lectures and through reading materials, he expected students to get full marks in exam. But on result, he observed that average score was 75%. He described its reason as not of students' dumbness or improper attention. He is of the view that students were doing there best but they were distracted by other things

According to the research at Stanford University by Dr. Nass, are students able to multitask as well as they thinking they can?

ANS#3: He said about that students do multitasking at a time as, students play game, read emails and use FaceBook etc. Classic Psychology does not agree with it and does not accept its possibility. But still those guys were performing many tasks at a time. In that research guys were selected because of they were high chronic multi-taskers.

What are Internet Rescue Camps in Korea?

ANS#4: In Korea the internet gaming craze got out of control and it was seen that students were glued with the screens all the time. It was seen that a few people actually got died in continuous 50 hours gaming with less food and water. About 90% of the Korean children are involved in this, and 10-15% of them are in high risk ...