Multitasking madness: are you always online, downloading music, chatting with friends, and sending text messages? If so, you're being trapped by your own technology

Authors :: Paulos, Leah
Source :: Scholastic Choices. September, 2007, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p10, 4 p.
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: When it's time for Andy MacDonald, 17, of Kewaskum, Wisconsin, to do his homework, he follows a daily routine. 'I sit down in my living room, put my cell phone [...]

Subjects :: Cellular telephones -- Usage -- Statistics
Concurrent programming -- Psychological aspects -- Methods -- Tests, problems and exercises -- Statistics -- Usage
Americans -- Statistics -- Methods -- Tests, problems and exercises -- Psychological aspects -- Usage
Teenagers -- Statistics -- Usage -- Psychological aspects -- Tests, problems and exercises -- Methods
Youth -- Statistics -- Usage -- Psychological aspects -- Tests, problems and exercises -- Methods
Multitasking -- Psychological aspects -- Methods -- Tests, problems and exercises -- Statistics -- Usage
Internet -- Usage -- Tests, problems and exercises -- Psychological aspects -- Statistics -- Methods
Wireless telephone
Wireless voice/data device
Internet
Education
Family and marriage
General interest

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