Distraction, which is preventing someone from giving their full attention, is part of being a human being. Humans are constantly being distracted from anything from social media and entertainment to a flying insect. We seem to be focusing on more of entertainment and distractions instead of listening to a lecture. Lecture are quite exhausting as students have to divert their focus onto lecture, while taking notes to study for exams. Thus, distraction is a key role in negatively affecting students learning and memorizing ability by distractions from social media, talking in class, and texting. Social media has greatly impacted students behaviour and ability to learn in class. Students are frequently using social media as a platform
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A student who is a frequent texter will generally be likely to text in class. These students are frequently checking their phone during class and replying back to their friends; however, texting is shown to be correlated with academic distraction, which increases deterioration of academic, and decrease homework completion (Stephanie Dietz 1). Moreover, texting is part of multitasking which is difficult to fully understand the material in class, because students are not able to focus. In a study for student reading a passage while texting, seem to have took them longer to finish the passage compare to a student who did not text. People in the texting group score a mean of 0.58 and a standard deviation of 0.17 (1). Research has found that multitasking point out that it produces a less efficent and less productive work (1). This indicate that texting is negatively related in academic. It seems to lower student’s GPA. Multitasking is considered a distraction where one is not able to put their full attention into the course material. In addition, researchers suggest that telephone ringing only distracts people from information at the present time of the ringer; however, a possible theory is that students are continuously distracted from text message, because researcher came up with the idea the students are always anticipating for incoming message which will distracts them from
A student who is a frequent texter will generally be likely to text in class. These students are frequently checking their phone during class and replying back to their friends; however, texting is shown to be correlated with academic distraction, which increases deterioration of academic, and decrease homework completion (Stephanie Dietz 1). Moreover, texting is part of multitasking which is difficult to fully understand the material in class, because students are not able to focus. In a study for student reading a passage while texting, seem to have took them longer to finish the passage compare to a student who did not text. People in the texting group score a mean of 0.58 and a standard deviation of 0.17 (1). Research has found that multitasking point out that it produces a less efficent and less productive work (1). This indicate that texting is negatively related in academic. It seems to lower student’s GPA. Multitasking is considered a distraction where one is not able to put their full attention into the course material. In addition, researchers suggest that telephone ringing only distracts people from information at the present time of the ringer; however, a possible theory is that students are continuously distracted from text message, because researcher came up with the idea the students are always anticipating for incoming message which will distracts them from