Essay On Mobile Phones In Education

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A Distraction in the Classroom: Mobile Phone Mobile phones play an important role in everyday life as one of the biggest part of communication network. Nowadays, it does not matter how old or young they are, everyone carries his mobile phone in his pocket. Under these circumstances, it is impossible that students do not bring their mobile phones to schools and do not use their phones during lectures. Since the effects of the use of mobile phone in classroom are discussed by researchers, the purpose of this paper is to give information about problems of the use of mobile phones in classroom and solutions about these problems. The aim of the study conducted by Tindell and Bohlander (2012) is to investigate the students’ manner about mobile …show more content…

The number of participants was 47 and they were divided into three groups. While listening the lectures and taking notes, the control group did not use their mobile phones. However, the law-distraction group received 12 and the high-distraction group received 24 text messages, and groups responded the messages. After taking notes, the participants reviewed their notes in 3 minutes, and then replied a Free Recall Test and a Multiple Choice Test. The results indicated that there was a negative relationship between texting and test performance. The control group was significantly successful than the high-distraction group in multiple choice and free call tests. Furthermore, the number of details in taken notes was higher in the control group; that is, there was a significant difference between the control group and the high-distraction group. That is; the use of mobile phone affects students’ success in a bad way both on tests and note-taking. The researchers of the study suggested that instructors should put a summary of the results of the study in course syllabus. In this way, students can see the potential results of the mobile phone usage during lectures. By informing to students about the effects of mobile phone usage in class, the instructors may reduce the frequency of

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