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Distraction and digital media: Multiplexing, not multitasking in the classroom

@inproceedings{Tkke2019DistractionAD,
  title={Distraction and digital media: Multiplexing, not multitasking in the classroom},
  author={Jesper T{\ae}kke and Michael Paulsen},
  year={2019},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:204902087}
}
A critical review of Kuznekoff et al. (2015) is provided and it is demonstrated that it is possible to develop conditions that make written interaction through social media beneficial to education, and the concept of multiplexing is introduced.
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