Lauren Balser
01/22/2018
ENG 112-20W
Annotated Bibliography
Cell Phone Usage
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Freed, Richard. “Why Phones Don’t Belong in School.” HuffPost, 13 Apr. 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-freed/why-phones-dont-belong-in-school_b_9666730.html. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018
Richard Freed received his P.H.D from Harvard Medical School and the California School of Professional Psychology he is a child and adolescent psychologist. In the article. Freed discusses the way in which phones being eliminated from school could increase test score and how having the phone in a classroom setting is actually more harmful. He further discusses how if the phone is removed children tend to pay more attention, take better and more detailed notes, and most importantly score a grade and a half higher than those of students who use their phone actively. Also Freed discusses how active phone usage leads to the opportunity to be cyberbullied. In one case a teacher from California said that he had a girl openly admit to being cyberbullied. He saw a multitude of negative effects when it came to students and their cell phones playing an active role in the school setting.
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Weimer, Maryellen. “The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on Learning.” Faculty Focus, Higher Ed Teaching & Learning, 8 Jan 2014, www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/the-age-of-distraction-getting-students-to-put-away-their-phones-and-focus-on-learning/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018
Maryellen Weimer is a well-known author. She is a publisher of articles, and is a known public speaker. Within the article Weimer mentions Kuznekoff and Titsworth’s study as a references to help her source the article. According to Kuzenekoff and Titsworth’s study she believe is you confront students with the evidence such as how continuous cell phone use effects their grades, points, and overall learning. She then proceeds to talk about how he or she may not respond well because not every student is the same and not every student does well by just sitting and taking notes. Maryellen then continues to write a few helpful tips and tricks for teachers such as, having students trade notes so each other could look over the others to see how many helpful points and if what they have written down are actually good notes. Another tip she gives is to have students ask themselves questions and see if they can answer them by just the information they have put into their notes. She believes if you make note taking more of a priority you will be able to move students away from playing with their cell phones.
Schaffhauser, Dian. “Research: College Students More Distracted Than Ever.” Campus Technology, 20 Jan. 2016, https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/01/20/research-college-students-more-distracted-than-ever.aspx?m=2. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
The thesis statement of the article states that, “the level of distraction has worsened.” This is a good place to realize what the whole article is going to be about. The article begins with, Dian Schaffhauser discussing the usage of cell phones by students in and out of the classroom. She then goes on to tell us that when students bring their phones to school they will regularly check their cell phones for text messages, a social media notification, and to simply just check the time and while doing this the are spending a fifth of their time playing on their cell phones. Another shocking statement made in the article says that 89% of students admitted to them being distracted by their cell phones which caused them to not pay attention, when adding this up it would mean students would not be paying attention for about 2/3rds of the year. The study done by Associate Professor Barney McCoy, who teaches news courses and multimedia at the University of Nebraska has ran a very similar study to this yet the distraction has worsened since the original study.
“Texting and Tweeting in the Classroom: How Do They Impact Student Learning?” Science Daily, Science News. 4 June 2015. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150604141531.htm. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
With an unknown author the article discusses how we are perpetually distracted. The article begins with telling us those students who text or use their cellphones in class tend to recall less information than students who do not use their mobile devices. In continuation to that he or she states that if they also use cell phones their note taking capability becomes worse. Their note taking capability is worse because students are giving the instructor or themselves full attention so they are being distracted. The author then proceeds to tell us about an experimental study by J.H. Kuznekoff that tested students’ ability to reply to messages that were either class related and text messages that were unrelated to classroom materials. The findings of these studies showed that students who were able to give a response to classroom related materials scored higher on tests than students who were only using their devices for things such as texting or being on social media. The reason for this is because texting about classroom related things allows students to process the information in a very similar way that they would process the information if they were taking notes.