Comments on: Attention Intervention: Digital Natives and the Myth of Multi-Tasking http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/ Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:31:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Multitasking: A Vital Skill for Today, or an Impediment to True Productivity? | WHAKATE http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/comment-page-1/#comment-5154 Multitasking: A Vital Skill for Today, or an Impediment to True Productivity? | WHAKATE Mon, 18 May 2009 09:23:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=193#comment-5154 [...] at Digital Natives, a project whose goal is “to better understand young people’s experiences with digital [...] [...] at Digital Natives, a project whose goal is “to better understand young people’s experiences with digital [...]

]]> By: MULTI-TASKING OR SWITCH-TASKING? | Sekolah Bogor Raya http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/comment-page-1/#comment-1524 MULTI-TASKING OR SWITCH-TASKING? | Sekolah Bogor Raya Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:30:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=193#comment-1524 [...] perusing my RSS reader, I came across a post by Diana Kimball in the Digital Natives blog, titled Attention Intervention: Digital Natives and the Myth of Multi-Tasking. This post makes it quite clear that most of what goes by the name of multi-tasking is in reality [...] [...] perusing my RSS reader, I came across a post by Diana Kimball in the Digital Natives blog, titled Attention Intervention: Digital Natives and the Myth of Multi-Tasking. This post makes it quite clear that most of what goes by the name of multi-tasking is in reality [...]

]]> By: Ivo Quartirolii http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/comment-page-1/#comment-1415 Ivo Quartirolii Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:58:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=193#comment-1415 Around one year ago I mused about multitasking on <a href="http://www.indranet.org/multitasking-to-nothing/" rel="nofollow"> Multitasking to nothing/</a> Around one year ago I mused about multitasking on Multitasking to nothing/

]]> By: Dave Crenshaw http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 Dave Crenshaw Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:42:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=193#comment-1360 P.S. My apologies for the misspell of your name, Diana P.S. My apologies for the misspell of your name, Diana

]]> By: Dave Crenshaw http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/comment-page-1/#comment-1359 Dave Crenshaw Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=193#comment-1359 Thank you for hte mention, Dianna. The fastest method I've found for helping people realize the cost of Multitasking is the numbers/letters exercise in the book. We've posted a version of that exercise for your readers at: http://www.timegym.com/exercise.php All the best, Dave Crenshaw Thank you for hte mention, Dianna.

The fastest method I’ve found for helping people realize the cost of Multitasking is the numbers/letters exercise in the book. We’ve posted a version of that exercise for your readers at:
http://www.timegym.com/exercise.php

All the best,
Dave Crenshaw

]]> By: sy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/attention-intervention-digital-natives-and-the-myth-of-multi-tasking/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 sy Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:02:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=193#comment-1354 Thanks for this! Fascinating, vexing! I use all sorts of tactics for firewalling, but I don't have much of a strategy overall. A central challenge is that the vast majority of my work tasks require a Net connection, thus tools like Freedom aren't terribly helpful. Moreover, only a very negligible number of my work tasks do _not_ require a computer, networked or not. I've tried forcing "digital" tasks into the real world (like printing documents for proofreading), but the transaction costs are usually too high (e.g., printing a document for proofreading, penciling in edits, but then having to enter your edits into a soft copy of the document in order to share them). As a result, the key for me has been working on mental tricks for remaining focused. One collateral effect is that, increasingly, the computer (networked or not) has become for me _the_ site of work and newsreading, two not always pleasant families of activity. My own leisure, pleasure, hobby and related activities are _re_-migrating offline, in order to be shielded from work and not the other way around. Thanks for this! Fascinating, vexing! I use all sorts of tactics for firewalling, but I don’t have much of a strategy overall. A central challenge is that the vast majority of my work tasks require a Net connection, thus tools like Freedom aren’t terribly helpful. Moreover, only a very negligible number of my work tasks do _not_ require a computer, networked or not. I’ve tried forcing “digital” tasks into the real world (like printing documents for proofreading), but the transaction costs are usually too high (e.g., printing a document for proofreading, penciling in edits, but then having to enter your edits into a soft copy of the document in order to share them). As a result, the key for me has been working on mental tricks for remaining focused. One collateral effect is that, increasingly, the computer (networked or not) has become for me _the_ site of work and newsreading, two not always pleasant families of activity. My own leisure, pleasure, hobby and related activities are _re_-migrating offline, in order to be shielded from work and not the other way around.

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