In the current climate, students are having to use more technology and media than before, as their lectures and seminars, group work and all communication now happens online.
Engaging in more than one form of media at any given time, such as listening to a podcast, while researching an assignment, while replying to an email etc. is known as bold text
Research shows that high levels of media multitasking can have a negative effect on academic studies and can increase the likelihood of students being distracted.
Why? Because people who regularly engage with multiple forms of media simultaneously have a stimulus driven attentional bias.
This means that their brain is always on the lookout for new information from their environment, regardless of whether that information is relevant to the task in hand.