Because of the gadgets and the Internet, students learn less

Specialists from Krenfildskoy School of Management, Northampton Business School and academic consulting firm AJM Associates (all - Great Britain) found evidence that an excessive fondness for gadgets impairs the ability of students to obucheniyu.Opros 267 pupils aged from 11 to 18 years showed that 63 % of them suffer from Internet addiction, while 53% have an unhealthy passion for mobile phones. 62% of respondents reported that they began to use or have in the personal possession of the personal computer, before he was eight years old. 80% first appeared in the network between the ages of five to ten years, 58% first call on a cellular device in eight to ten years, while 58% were visiting social sites at eleven or thirteen let.Bolee half of respondents (53.2%) spend about 30 minutes a day with a mobile receiver in his hand, and devote 17% of telephone calls, exchange SMS and games for at least three hours daily. Every fifth respondent (20.2%) reported that does not disable the mobile device during lessons, although this zaprescheno.30% of pupils are told that they spend on the Internet for 1-2 hours a day, and 26% of "stuck" in the online six or more hours. On average, each respondent spends in social networks for an hour or two each day. Typically, students sent more e-mails than they receive, the majority of respondents read or write letters to twenty ezhednevno.Okolo-thirds of respondents (39%) admitted that because of the frequent use of abbreviations in text messaging and e-mails they have emerged problem with written English, especially spelling. Some 84% did not hide the fact that when homework is often copied the information from the Internet. 90% named the network the best source of information necessary for writing term papers, and only 43% said they perform the task, drawing on information from knig.Po researchers say, Gadgets impair attentiveness teenagers and prevent them from focusing on what happens in the classroom during lessons. In addition, because of modern technology plagiarism was for kids and teens common: instead of reading a textbook, they go to the Internet and mindlessly copying information without delving into the substance and not trying to tell her own words. And the abbreviations used in SMS, led to the fact that teenagers have formed their own "bird" language, which is why in the future they may have problems communicating with others.