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THE DOWNSIDE OF MOBILE DEVICES
Distraction by mobile devices is indeed something to worry about. Jeffrey Kuznekoff studies communications at Miami University Middletown in Ohio. For one recent project, he let college students take notes during a video lecture. Afterward the students took a test on the material. During the video, one group of students could text or tweet about anything. Another group could text and tweet only if the messages related to the lecture. A control group couldn’t text or tweet at all.
“Texting on things that are unrelated to class can hurt student learning,” Kuznekoff found. 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. That control and relevant-message groups also scored 50 percent higher on note-taking.
“You’re putting yourself at a disadvantage when you are actively engagedwith your mobiledevice in class and not engaged in what’s going on,” warns Kuznekoff. His team shared its findings in the July 2015 issue of CommunicationEducation.
Those findings mesh with what college students themselves report. 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.
“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. She’s a communications researcher at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs. In fact, she and her colleagues found, multitasking in class “is likely to harm their academic performance.”
“We also have data that show that people who multitask during class or while doing homework have to spend more time studying,” notes UConn coauthor Kristine Nowak. In other words, she argues, students who use mobile devices for something other than research or note- taking during class “are not efficient, and it is costing them time.” Concludes Nowak, “People believe they are better at multitasking than they are and this is leading them to bad study habits.” Her group shared its findings in the December 2015 issue of Computers in HumanBehavior.
Света - двоюродная сестра Леры. Она любит собирать марки. Она начала собирать их, когда ей было 7 лет. Света коллекционирует почтовые марки России и из других стран. У нее есть 100 марок. У Леры есть много друзей по переписке и она любит писать писем. У нее есть много конвертов с марками из разных городов и населенных пунктов. В году Лера подарила своей двоюродной сестре почтовую марку.
What does Sveta like doing? Read and tell your friend about her hobby. (Чем любит заниматься Света? Прочитайте и расскажите своему другу о ее хобби.)
Sveta likes collecting stamps. She collects Russian stamps and stamps from other countries. Sveta has got 100 stamps. (Света любит собирать марки. Она коллекционирует марки России и из других стран. У Светы есть 100 марок.)
The Americans are very proud of their country. They say that in the USA the buildings are taller, the cigars are longer, the cars are bigger, and the girls are prettier than anywhere in the world. The English do not always agree. Some say the Americans are louder, richer and noisier than any other nationality. Other British people think there are lots of good things about the USA like Hollywood, jazz and Superman. It is true that most American skyscrapers are taller than buildings in the UK, but the British think their stately homes are older and more beautiful than anything in the USA. The Americans love coke and hamburgers – people in the UK think British food is much healthier. Clothes are cheap in the USA but fashion design in the UK is better than design in the USA.
У Леры есть много друзей по переписке и она любит писать писем. У нее есть много конвертов с марками из разных городов и населенных пунктов. В году Лера подарила своей двоюродной сестре почтовую марку.
What does Sveta like doing? Read and tell your friend about her hobby. (Чем любит заниматься Света? Прочитайте и расскажите своему другу о ее хобби.)
Sveta likes collecting stamps. She collects Russian stamps and stamps from other countries. Sveta has got 100 stamps. (Света любит собирать марки. Она коллекционирует марки России и из других стран. У Светы есть 100 марок.)
The English do not always agree. Some say the Americans are louder, richer and noisier than any other nationality. Other British people think there are lots of good things about the USA like Hollywood, jazz and Superman. It is true that most American skyscrapers are taller than buildings in the UK, but the British think their stately homes are older and more beautiful than anything in the USA. The Americans love coke and hamburgers – people in the UK think British food is much healthier.
Clothes are cheap in the USA but fashion design in the UK is better than design in the USA.