Leave a derogation of a few minutes to the iron rule of the “no -class cell” reduces the desire to use it later and improves performance.
In the debate on the need to limit the use of lessons to lessons, the possibility of “Sgarre” in a controlled way to the absolute ban on checking the smartphonefor the benefit of all: A very short “cell pause” of a minute or in fact it seems in fact limit subsequent screen distractionsand improve the learning of the boys. It is the singular lesson that emerged from an experiment conducted in a college (the equivalent of a university) in the United States. The evaluation, carried out by the scientists of Southern Illinois University, was published in the magazine Frontiers in Education.
A minute and then enough. The test concerned the entire duration of 22 courses, during which scientists alternatively introduced a short “cellular break” or a short “question break”. In the first case, the boys were allowed, during the lessons on a biseptimanal cadence, of interact with your cell phone for one, two or four minutes per lesson. The smartphone break was set after 15 minutes from the start of the explanation. In the second case, the students of the control group did not enjoy a cellular break but a break of an equivalent duration (one, two or four minutes), during which they were able to ask any question they wanted to professors.
Placata anxiety. The boys returning from the cellular break have later Searching devices much less compared to the students of the control group. The most effective break in quelling the temptation to trace the smartphone was that of a minute – perhaps, they hypothesize the researchers, because it is Just time the time needed to check the messages receivedhowever, without being able to hire new (and distraction) conversations.
More attentive to lesson. In addition, in the classes where the one -minute technological break was introduced, Student averages in the tests have improvedyou think – or hope – because the boys were less distracted by the mobile phone during the explanation, and therefore they got better performance.
It’s for your good … Since it has however been an isolated experiment, the results will have to be confirmed with further studies. But they could be inspired by designing strategies that dissuade from using the telephones in class But without being punitiveand that make the boys go a message of trust in their sense of self -control.
