How Does Multitasking Change The Way Kids Learn?

How Multitasking Affects Kids' Learning
School-age boy sitting in front of the monitor laptop at home on the couch.
School-age boy sitting in front of the monitor laptop at home on the couch.

Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students -- in middle school, high school, and college, 263 in all -- opened their books and turned on their computers.

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