At least temporarily.

if you do two things at once, both efforts suffer

Digital distractions (email, texting, tweeting, social media) can be making us less efficient. The distraction of an interruption, combined with the brain drain of preparing for that interruption, made our test takers 20 percent dumber. That’s enough to turn a B-minus student (80 percent) into a failure (62 percent). However, in a subsequent test the respondents learned how to deal with the interruptions and did better on the test.

Is it possible the new digital distractions are taking away from the learning experience completely?