Unitasking: A Route to Enhanced Productivity

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When I first read the unitasking challenge, I thought this challenge was going to make me less productive because I was not able to do my usual multitasking. I realize now that my first reaction was extremely wrong. As I am completing this assignment, I am untiasking and only paying attention to this assignment. I have discovered that by unitasking more I am actually able to finish more work or tasks while being able to feel that I was able to understand them better. I have used unitasking in other aspects of my life and I think that it has been extremely helpful. Before this challenge, I was a chronic multitasker. I would have a youtube video or television show on, would be texting, checking emails, and doing homework. This was not a good …show more content…

First, I would make a list of all the things that I would have to do for the class for the week. (Something that I had already been doing prior to this class.) Second, I would look at my schedule and plan out when I would be able to completely focus on doing the assignments for the week. Third, I would put my phone and ipad on “do not disturb,” sit at my desk, put on classical “study music” playlists on my computer, and use an application that did not allow me to go to preset websites for a set amount of time. (This time would vary upon how long I had scheduled to work on assignments that day or how long I believed that a particular assignment would take.) I quickly realized how important the environment was in being a successful unitasker and how I had to completely change my thinking to change from a multitasker to unitasker. Piaget would believe that technology could benefit children in different stages of cognitive development. In the sensorimotor stage, children can use visually and auditorily stimulating technology and applications to provide the child with sensory input. In the preoperational stage, technology could be used to exercise the child’s representational thought processing because using games on technology involves them being able to understand that if they are playing a game on an ipad that there might also be a physical version of the …show more content…

Goleman explains that there are two parts to emotional intelligence which include knowing oneself and knowing others. To exhibit appropriate emotional development one must be able to recognize and maintain their emotions. Goleman would believe that technology provides many opportunities to practice both parts of emotional intelligence through the various ways that technology allows individual to communicate with each other(text, email, instagram, etc.) Information Processing theorists would believe that technology and multitasking inhibits people’s ability to adequately process information and build

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