In fact, she and her colleagues found, multitasking in class “is likely to harm their academic performance.” She’s a communications researcher at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs. “A lot of students tend to think that they are good at multitasking,” or doing more than one thing at a time, says Saraswathi Bellur. Another new study found that the more time students said that they typically text, use social media or read online during class, the lower their grades are. Those findings mesh with what college students themselves report. His team shared its findings in the July 2015 issue of “You’re putting yourself at a disadvantage when you are actively engaged with your mobile device in class and not engaged in what’s going on,” warns Kuznekoff. In a recent study by Jeffrey Kuznekoff at Miami University, college students who watched a videotaped lecture scored lower on a test afterward if they texted about unrelated matters during the class. That control and relevant-message groups also scored 50 percent higher on note-taking. Overall, the control and class-related-message groups did 70 percent better on the test than did students that could text and tweet about anything. “Texting on things that are unrelated to class can hurt student learning,” Kuznekoff found. A control group couldn’t text or tweet at all. Another group could text and tweet only if the messages related to the lecture. During the video, one group of students could text or tweet about anything. Afterward the students took a test on the material. For one recent project, he let college students take notes during a video lecture. Jeffrey Kuznekoff studies communications at Miami University Middletown in Ohio. The downside of mobile devicesĭistraction by mobile devices is indeed something to worry about. But teachers at that high school also were worried about their students becoming distracted. In general, teachers felt these devices could improve learning, the Boston College team reported last April at a meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Devices can connect interested students with groups and experts in that field as well.Ĭho and Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, also at Boston College, recently surveyed teachers at a high school that urges all students to use mobile devices. With that, students can share ideas and opinions within - or beyond - the classroom. But, like regular computers, they allow Internet access. For example, mobile devices often are cheaper and less bulky than regular computers. “If we have these devices, we can do a lot of things around student interests and projects,” says Vincent Cho at Boston College in Massachusetts. Devices can even replace heavy, paper textbooks.Īnd that’s not all. Calculator apps can help with math problems. Mobile devices make it easy to type and organize notes. Sometimes that can help probe a class topic in greater depth. teen uses a smartphone to send texts or browse the Internet, even at school. Want to prepare charts and present top-notch class reports? As the saying goes, there’s an app for that. Curious about something the teacher said? A quick Internet search can turn up more facts. Smartphones, tablets and other devices can be very handy at school. Read on to see what scientists say about the use of smartphones and other mobile devices in class and what it could mean for today’s teens. Unfortunately, kicking the habit of using cellphones and other mobile devices in class can be a hard. But too much tech time at school for things other than classwork can cost you, new studies show. You need to be tech-savvy, both in and outside of school. Almost one in four claims to be online “almost constantly.” Additionally, the Pew report shows, 92 percent of teens go online daily. That’s the median number from the Pew data. Some 90 percent of teens with cell phones send texts. Those numbers come from a 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. In the United States, 73 percent of teens own or have access to a smartphone. You may even use that phone to text, tweet or go online during class. If you’re like most kids these days, you use a smartphone, and you use it often.
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