By Leanne Smith, Michigan Live
A university professor in Pennsylvania has completed a study and written a soon-to-be-published paper on the effects of text messaging by college students during class. Students who send and receive texts during class have a hard time paying attention to lectures and risk not learning as much as they would if they weren’t texting and were paying attention. Washington, D.C.’s National Communication Association, will publish the paper in its July print issue of its journal Communication Education. The study’s principal author is Fang-Yi Flora Wei, assistant professor of broadcast communications at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. In the release, she says, “Now we see that in-class texting partially interferes with a student’s ability to pay attention, which prior studies show is necessary for effective cognitive learning.”
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