Students Distracted by Instant Messaging
By Don | August 20, 2008
Newsflash! Students who try to read and answer instant messages while completing a reading assignment take longer to finish the assignment than those that don't receive messages or those that read but don't answer messages.
In a study conducted by Laura Bowman, a psychology professor at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain students who read and answered messages took an average of 15 minutes longer to complete their reading assignment than those that didn't.
They needed to study 59 students in a lab to figure this out?
Heck, I could have told her this just by my observations of my 16 year-old son who blasts music on his i-pod and surfs the net while doing his homework. It doesn't get done very quickly but it does get done.
It seems to me that this study was superfluous and that common sense would have yielded the same results.
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