Pre-service teachers´ media multitasking behaviors with smart devices

The possibility of media multitasking with mobile devices greatly increased due to the wide spared of smart devices such as smart phones and tablet PCs such as iPad. There are controversies of the effect of multitasking to users´ work achievement, and in this paper we first surveyed the pre-service teachers´ behaviors of multitasking with information technologies during their school lives. Then we have analyzed their multitasking patterns using eye movements while they are taking an e-learning program as a main job, and distracted activities such as web surfing, listening music, and online chatting are allowed. From the observations, we found that students with higher frequency of media multitasking habit spend almost 63.4% of lower time to their main job, and 5.8 times more on web surfing.