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Re: Activity 0.1 : Are students smarter now?

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In reference to multitasking it should be noted that the perception that this behaviour of "multi-processing" is unique to Net Gen as a result of their use of multiply technologies and associated activities, Brown (2000), is not the case as previous generations were multi-tasking just multi-tasking different tasks. The difference is the technology today, the student perceive that their devices and applications enable the user to multi-task, Nortcliffe and Middleton (2013). However the ability of a human to multi-tasks is more about the agility of the cognitive capacity and short term memory of the adult brain, (Cowan, Nugent, Elliott, [...]