Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away | Medium | September 2014 A treasure trove of links to studies on the impacts of technology on thinking. The level of distraction in my classes seemed to grow, even though it was the same professor and largely the same set of topics, taught to a group of students
New study links smartphone use in students with increased anxiety and bad grades | The Independent | December 2013 The research from Kent State University looked at 500 students, noting that “high frequency cell phone users tended to have a lower GPA [academic scores], higher anxiety, and lower satisfaction with life relative to their peers who used the cell phone
Take Notes by Hand for Better Long-Term Comprehension | Association for Psychological Science | June 2014 The results revealed that while the two types of note-takers performed equally well on questions that involved recalling facts, laptop note-takers performed significantly worse on the conceptual questions. The notes from laptop users contained more words and more verbatim overlap with the lecture, compared
You’ll Never Learn!: Students Can’t Resist Multitasking | Slate | May 2013 Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds. By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork.