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As someone who currently has no less than 12 tabs open, I'm no stranger to the idea that the internet is just one giant
distraction. Or more accurately, millions of tiny distractions. It's pretty fortunate, then, that the majority of my education was
at a time when laptops weren't brought into schools and lectures, because a new study from Michigan State University
confirms what we all kind of suspected: giving students stuck in a lecture theatre laptops just leads them to zone out.
Sampled only one course to take on such a grand endeavor.

To test the theory that humans are our own greatest educational saboteurs, Professors Susan Ravizza and Kimberly Fenn
asked 507 students in Fenn's 15-week introductory psychology class if they would participate in a study where their
What about learning that occurs outside of the lecture?
Only 25% of one class participated.
lecture internet usage was tracked during lectures. The 127 that agreed were asked to log in via a proxy server to give the
researchers insights into how focused they were. In all, 83 students checked in for over half the course.
What does it mean to "check in" and what conclusions can really be made?

See related Faraday Future just hired an ex-Ferrari F1 boss to take on Tesla Faraday Future: A secret new Tesla-rival is
building a $1 billion factory in California Faraday Future spied testing driverless tech
What is this?
Whats causing them to be distracted?

On average, the tracked students spent 37 minutes of each lecture distractedly browsing the internet. That doesn't sound
I agree, thats not bad at all.
too bad, until you realise that each lecture was only one hour and 50 minutes long. Students would divide this time
between social media, catching up on email, online shopping and watching videos. And, of course, this is only the students
Showing a clear bias here.
who agreed to be tracked presumably there are some who wouldn't have agreed because of how little attention they pay.
The real kicker to all this was that internet use over the duration of the course was a significant predictor of final exam
scores, even when motivation (measured via survey) and intelligence (demonstrated by American College Testing scores)
were accounted for. The detrimental relationship associated with non-academic internet use raises questions about the
policy of encouraging students to bring their laptops to class when they are unnecessary for class use, Ravizza said.

Since most learning occurs outside of the classroom, I find it hard to believe that this is any kind of predictor whatsoever.

No doubt... access to a laptop in this study likely is any indicator of anything.

And no, for the purposes of this class, access to a laptop offered no tangible improvements to student performance. There
were no internet-based assignments in this course, which means that most of the 'academic use' was downloading lecture
slides in order to follow along or take notes, explained professor Ravizza. And there's evidence to suggest that taking
notes by hand is way more effective in the long run, too, so even diligent note-takers aren't necessarily doing themselves
any favours. This paragraph reveals why laptop use is no indicator of student learning, within the context of this study.
The paper will be published online in the Psychological Science journal, but in the meantime the researchers have picked
up a useful tip for bringing out the best in their students. Ravizza no longer uploads lecture slides ahead of time, meaning
there's no reason to have a laptop open in class at all. Perhaps there is no reason to have a laptop in class, but it is not
because of how students are accessing the internet.

Not that she's enforcing a no laptops policy or anything, but she doesn't recommend her students do. I now ask students
to sit in the back if they want to bring their laptop to class so their internet use is not distracting other students, she said.
Lead image: University of Liverpool. Body image: MSU

How is internet use distracting to other students?

Michigan State University study says that web surfing brings down the grades no matter how smart the student

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