And two recent studies by Reynol Junco, a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, found that texting and using Facebook—in class and while doing homework—were negatively correlated with college students’ GPAs.
students who use social media during class have lower GPA's
Young people think they can perform two challenging tasks at once, Meyer acknowledges, but “they are deluded,” he declares. It’s difficult for anyone to properly evaluate how well his or her own mental processes are operating, he points out, because most of these processes are unconscious.
Young people think they can multitask but in reality they can't
“I don’t care if a kid wants to tweet while she’s watching American Idol, or have music on while he plays a video game. But when students are doing serious work with their minds, they have to have focus.”
multi tasking while studying causes your brain to retain less knowledge than it would have studying normally
Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds.
Can't focus on academics for more than two minutes
It really seems that they could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices,
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also using email, looking at Facebook, engaging in instant messaging, texting, talking on the phone, watching television, listening to music, surfing the Web.
Students get distracted by all the forms of media and games that can be accessed online with the click of a button. Doing HW on the computer makes it hard to stay focussed.