The Influence Of Technology And Texting In The Classroom

Summary
In today’s generation, it has become a daily routine to continually multitask in a college classroom. This generation’s college students are young Net generation adults who have been involved in technology since a very young age, students are constantly interacting electronically. For instance, many individuals are continuously texting their peers or using social media when they are present in a classroom or lecture. With that being said, technology in the classroom can be disruptive and decrease performance. This study investigates the influence of classroom texting on ability to learn and recollection of lecture material.
As most individuals would expect, interruptions can disturb the absorption of content and cause difficulty when
It was already assumed that texting was disruptive and multitasking lead to decrease in performance. However, psychologist wanted to fully examine the direct impact of text message interruptions on memory recall in a classroom environment. In this study, participants viewed a 30 minute videotaped lecture during which they were interrupted by receiving and sending text messages. The participants included a total of 185 college students in four psychology courses who were mainly female and averaged 25 years of age. The participants were randomly assigned to three groups receiving no messages, four messages, or eight messages. These groups were labeled No/Low texting interruption, Moderate texting interruption, and High texting interruption. Participants received a form before the study requesting their cell phone number, carrier, and typical texting behavior. The hypothesis for this experiment was that the more text message interruptions that participant received the worse they would perform, and those who waited to read and respond to a text would produce better memory recall scores than those who responded right
Technology has become an extremely important part of our lives, humans are constantly attached to their cellular device. Therefore, it is important to have an understanding of how technology and the distractions that it brings impact students in the classroom.
Today’s generation of students have become so used to texting and social media that even when they are not on their cell phones, they are still thinking about activity that is occurring on their cellular device. Which is one of the many reasons parents and teachers have negative feelings about cellphones in the classroom. However, those parents and teachers will be baffled by the results of this study, discovering that students who multitasks in the classroom do not do worse than students who do not multitask. Although, students who are constantly checking their device for messages and refreshing their social media pages do in fact have a harder time comprehending the information. Multitasking has become a very controversial topic not only in the classroom, but in businesses and jobs as well. According to psychologist, recent neuroscience research tells us that the brain doesn’t truly do tasks simultaneously as most individuals like to believe. In fact, we just switch tasks quickly. Each time we shift from listing to a meeting to typing a text, there is a stop/start process that goes on