I found the documentary Digital Nation to be very interesting. Technology is such a large part of most people's lives that many of us fail to even realize how much it affects our day to day existence. The part of the movie that I found to be most interesting was the part about multitasking and how it affects our brains.
Multitasking is something that most people do on a daily basis. I myself am even guilty of taking part in it. At this very moment I have several other tabs open on my computer. Facebook, Yahoo Mail, Pinterest, Blackboard, etc. All of these things serve as distractions from what I should be doing, writing this blog entry. Even as I watched the movie I was busy doing other things, feeding my daughter breakfast, washing a load of laundry, loading the dishwasher. I, like most other people, am usually busy trying to do many things at once. With the luxury of technology, it is much easier to do this, but is it healthy?
I really enjoyed the part of the movie where the MIT students where studied. I found it interesting that the students claimed that multitasking was actually making them more efficient thinkers and learners. When the study was done on how their brains reacted to completing many activities at one time, they where proven wrong. The fact that doing many things at once actually slows down our thinking makes me wonder, what could we accomplish if we were not so distracted all of the time?
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