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How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds

Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.

 

… In another study, published in Applied Cognitive Psychology in April, researchers examined how smartphones affected learning in a lecture class with 160 students at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. They found that students who didn’t bring their phones to the classroom scored a full letter-grade higher on a test of the material presented than those who brought their phones. It didn’t matter whether the students who had their phones used them or not: All of them scored equally poorly. A study of 91 secondary schools in the U.K., published last year in the journal Labour Economics, found that when schools ban smartphones, students’ examination scores go up substantially, with the weakest students benefiting the most.

Quelle: How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds

«Die Hälfte unserer Schüler wird in Berufen arbeiten, die es heute noch gar nicht gibt» | NZZ

Der digitale Wandel trägt das Potenzial zu heftigen Veränderungen und Verunsicherung in sich. Höchste Zeit, dass sich die Gymnasien damit auseinandersetzen.

Quelle: «Die Hälfte unserer Schüler wird in Berufen arbeiten, die es heute noch gar nicht gibt» | NZZ