from Dave Crenshaw:
This links to a very interesting letter to the editor by a high school student in the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
It illustrates:
a) the Millennium generation is learning its multitasking behavior from the example of adults.
and
b) the importance of making the distinction between background tasking and switchtasking.
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20081220/OPINION03/812200308