He advises students to take “tech breaks” to satisfy their cravings for electronic communication
No, students should learn to control themselves. They have breaks in between classes that give them a chance to go on their devices. It should not disrupt the class itself.
And a study last month showed that students who multitask on laptops in class distract not just themselves but also their peers who see what they’re doing.
Not only can student not multitask, but they also can not mind their own business.
negative outcomes that occurs when students multitask while doing schoolwork
Little to no benefit from multitasking
The spies reported that 58 percent of second- and third-year law students who had laptops in class were using them for “non-class purposes” more than half the time
Anyone can get distracted, no matter the age or education level.
Other professors have taken a more surreptitious approach, installing electronic spyware or planting human observers to record whether students are taking notes on their laptops or using them for other, unauthorized purposes.
A little bit extra, but if it works, it works.
One large survey found that 80 percent of college students admit to texting during class; 15 percent say they send 11 or more texts in a single class period.
Texting is easy to access
“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.”
snaps I agree since work is important and the student should not have any other distractions if they want to do well.
Attending to multiple streams of information and entertainment while studying, doing homework, or even sitting in class has become common behavior among young people—so common that many of them rarely write a paper or complete a problem set any other way.
From doing this, the student becomes distracted, not fully engaging themselves in the assignment, therefore not understanding the subject to its fullest extent.
“It really seems that they could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices,”
Technology is taking over our lives.
it wasn’t long before their attention drifted: Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds.
The students tended to focus on things they cared about—texting others, checking social media, rather than doing work they don’t think is important to them.
reading a book, writing on paper, typing on the computer—and also using email, looking at Facebook, engaging in instant messaging, texting, talking on the phone, watching television, listening to music, surfing the Web
The students were distracted easily by other factors that were easy to access—other forms of media