Tuesday, March 29, 2016

  • Dietz, S., and C. Henrich. "Texting as a Distraction to Learning in College Students." COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR 36 (2014): 163-7. Web.
  • In Dietz and Henrich's article, "Texting as a Distraction to Learning in College Students," Dietz and Henrich focus on the affects that texting in a lecture setting. A study was conducted where some students in a lecture would be on their phone texting while the other students would not be on their phones. At the end of this lecture, a quiz was given to the students and the results of the texting versus the non-texting students' quizzes were compared. The results showed that the students that were not on their phones scored significantly higher than those that were on their phones. I believe that this article can help my research because I am looking to argue that new media can be beneficial in a college classroom setting as long as this new media has some limitations, such as the texting during a lecture. I believe that since Dietz is a graduate from the University of Kentucky and Salmon P. Chase College of Law and that Henrich is a professor at Yale that the information found in this article is precise.

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