...Social media distractions are one of the distractions that makes American students fail in classes. “The real message is because attention is under siege more than it has ever been in human history, we have more distractions than ever before, we have to be more focused on cultivating the skills of attention,” said Daniel Goleman. 47% of American students have either failed one or more class due to social media distraction, specifically. Students, most of the time, fail classes because they are distracted by any type of social media. Students are dependent and fixated to social media which most likely kills their time. Social media has made, almost all social media user students, addicted to it. A growing body of evidence from cognitive science...
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... 1/12/15 Essay Social media has taken the world by storm. It is usually the younger generation that uses social media than any other demographic. It is amazing as to how the Internet is revolutionizing and changing people's lives. For example, social media can be a huge distraction. The internet is a network that allows everyone to become a different person. Also, schools had enough of students abusing social media networks in school. Social media must be banned from schools. The internet has provided our world with different means of communication and access to anyone at any second. The result is led to social network becoming a huge distraction especially towards students. It becomes such an addiction that they aren't able to control it anymore. The Kaiser family foundation reported that children ages 8 to 18 spend approximately 7 or more hours using social media networks and entertainment per day. To make this clear when you add text messaging, the hours soar up to 11 hours a day which is horrible for students. " People are paying more attention to the environmental stimuli at the expense of focus ( Anthony Wagner ) He is trying to say that students today would rather waste their time on social media instead of focusing on the things that will be beneficial to them later in life. This is one reason why social media should be banned. The internet is an easy way for people to escape their reality and create an altered image of themselves online. Social networks give people...
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...Temptation” Social media has become a constant temptation amongst kids and teens. Whether or not social media should be used as a learning tool in the classroom has become a very controversial topic in the education department. Some administrators and educators have gone as far as banning all social media from being used in the classroom and online, while others have not, and find it very useful. Although there address many views on this topic, teachers and students can benefit from using social media in classrooms. Opposing views claim social media is hindering human interaction. It doesn't help or improve a student's a stability to communicate verbally. However, the benefits outweigh the negatives. Allowing students to interact through social media can work on their ability to work together. It allows them to collaborate in and out out of school. For example, a student that is very shy and doesn't feel very comfortable speaking in front of a whole class may feel more comfortable behind the computer screen. Although social media can be a distraction in the classroom, it is also a distraction from everyday life. Students are on social media just about every hour of the day. Therefore, teachers put themselves at an advantage by using social media. Student's can get help with their homework by posting questions online and getting quick responses. Doing so, allows teachers to get feedback on work and see specific areas of an assignment students need help in. For example, a student can...
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...Is Digital Technology Harming Our Students? Barbara Rivera AIU Online Abstract In a society so technologically developed with users that range from children through old age rises a debate on whether technology is helpful to students in school. Surveys have shown that students spend numerous hours focusing on digital devices to communicate and access social media. With the over use of digital technology comes negative effects that hinder a student’s ability to grasp and retain knowledge. Furthermore, there is evidence that they also suffer from physical effects. Some argue that the ease of access of information is beneficial to the students, but studies show that student don’t utilize digital media appropriately. Is Digital Technology Harming Our Students? In today’s fast pace moving society people enjoy the convenience of digital technology all around them. From wireless laptops at home to tablets and smartphones on the go people have access to instant information and the ability to connect instantly through social media and messaging. As society moves forward in an ever-changing and evolving world of technology there raises questions to the impact technology has in different settings (i.e. school, work, and home). There have been many debates on the issue of whether technology is helpful or a hindrance in schools. While there are some pros to technology in the classroom, one has to look at the cons closely as society in general is becoming overwhelmingly dependent on...
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...Blocking Social Networking Sites in Visual Basic.Net at Gates Computer Laboratory of Informatics International College Diliman A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Informatics International College Diliman, Quezon City In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Course Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Marlon Brian F. Palmares, BSIT Kevin F. Zaldarriaga, BSIT June 20, 2012 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING A. INTRODUCTION With the rapid phase of the changing generation, the youth is now more demanding in acquiring technologies that will suit to their needs, especially when it is applied to their studies. However, many students are spending a lot of their time in social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking services while spending less time on their studies. This occurring incident aroused us to look into social networking sites and how they affect the student’s academic performance. In this study, the researchers will review how social networking sites might affect the productivity of students. Social Network is one of the reasons affecting the student’s productivity in school. Because of these, students are lacking concentration to the lectures on their subjects. Most students are not paying attention when the professor is trying to explain the lesson or giving the instruction of what to do, the students are busy browsing social networking sites, and that would end up that the student will...
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...11 Nov. 2014 Outline Thesis: The usage of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and has sadly became the main resource of communication. I. Introduction: What if every cell phone in the world crashed? How would society communicate? How would one know when someone’s birthday is without getting a notification for it? Some people wouldn’t even know when to get up each morning. Thirty years ago, these questions would be easily answered, but it would have taken separate resources to solve each issue. Most tasks nowadays, however, are done by using this single device. The overuse of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and, sadly, becoming the main resource of communication. (Tip: 1. Ask a provocative question or disturbing question.) II. One problem with cell phones in today’s society is that they have become major distractions. A. Cell phones are distracting employees in the workplace and leaving them with their jobs halfway done. B. Not only are cell phones a distraction in the workplace, they are also a distraction and disruptive in school districts, causing students attention to be elsewhere. C. In addition to cell phones being distracting, people often like to multi-task by walking or driving while texting. These things case them...
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...Writing Assignment #3 (Data Analysis/Social media) One widely recognized issue that we face these days is the distraction social networking can be when it comes to education. I mean, if biology class is a total drag you are going to want to find something to entertain yourself with for the time being, right? While I agree that a boring class is not the best thing in the world, the information being taught is much more important than what’s being posted on your Instagram or Twitter feed. According to a post on NBC News’ website regarding research on the connection between the average American teen’s attention span with common distractions such as cell phones, text messaging and social networks, and how it affects grades, approximately 47 percent of American high school or college students have either failed one or more classes due to distractions, furthering my point that too much online social activity can be a harmful distraction. Social network overuse can not only affect your academic life, but also your personal life as well. From my own experience, just about anyone getting too comfortable on social networks can definitely serve as a threat to his or her personal well-being. I’ve witnessed many arguments and disagreements on social media leading to physical altercations between classmates. With so many different mindsets and opinions floating around, it is almost impossible to post something without at least one person disagreeing or feeling personally offended...
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...for many students, it also presents challenges. Technology use is changing how people communicate and learn, how they approach learning and how they process information. But I think there are three reasons to worry. Reason one, the technology will be unevenly distributed, meaning that the gap between rich, poor and young, old will actually widen. In today’s academic world, a very noticeable gap exists between the technology teacher’s use in their lesson plans and the level of technological experience most students have. And in most cases, the students come out on top. From social media to computers, students are more ahead of most of their teachers and this may cause many problems when teachers try to both engage their students in the material and stay ahead of their ability to learn. It's true that some teachers have an excellent understanding of technology, but a large percentage of teachers—even young teachers—are lagging behind, technologically speaking, when compared to their students. Even as technology becomes more affordable and internet access seems increasingly ubiquitous, a “digital divide” between rich and poor remains. The rich and educated are still more likely than others to have good access to digital resources. For children in low-income school districts, inadequate access to technology can hinder them from learning the tech skills that are crucial to success in today’s economy. Reason two; Technology is being used as a crutch Students are quick...
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...to easily be a distraction. Technology has created the IPhone, iPad, Galaxy, Samsung and these distractions are helpful but can be very dangerous. People are expose to a great amount of technology on consistent base. Technology has control lives, social and decision skills. The contribution of technology hinder the current generation as a whole in today’s world. Because technology have an impact on the lives of people, this trend has had a negative effect on society, the growth of intelligence and how we conduct business. Social media has offered the world a huge contribution in how cellphones gain a negative effects on society because it effects people communication skills. Cellphones have invented new apps such as: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter etc., that influence people to become more comfortable with texting friends and family rather than indulging a face to face conversation. In the article, “Teens spend a 'mind-boggling' 9 hours a day using media, report says” by Kelly Wallace published in the CNN that proves that teens check social media 100 times and “spend on average 9 hours a day consuming media” (CNN, 2015). Social media has provoke to form a consistent habit as people get older. Using Kelly Wallace as a source, social media can be justified to be distraction towards the world. People cannot educate themselves or prioritize their work ethics if they are checking their social media multiple times a day. The more time people are using social media as a tool to communicate...
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...Are Relationships a distraction??? Guys a question before I start off with my topic. How many of u guys are committed here or are in a relationship here..Married people also included… Wooo… quite a lot.. so how many of u guys think this relationship is a distraction?? So my topic for today is that are Relationships a distraction ?? be it work or studies.. That big question that omg u r in a relationship. Imagine the posts we see in fb. What my parents think-----Beta toh haath se nikal gaya… What my friends think---yaar ab toh teri nikal padi yaar.. What my teachers think/boss think---this guy is going in the wrong direction ..iska kuch nae ho sakta What actually happens--- reminds me a song from pyaar ka punchnama …Ban gaya kutta dekho ban gaya kutta.. Actually there are researches..emperical ones done on this topic.. These are the facts:- “No A 4 U: The Relationship between Multitasking and Academic Performance” Juncoa, Reynol; Cotten, Shelia R. Computers & Education, 2012, Vol. 59, Issue 2, September 2012, 505-514. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2011.12.023. Findings: The researchers examine how the use of Facebook — and engagement in other forms of digital activity — while trying to complete schoolwork was associated with college students’ grade point averages. Students gave the researchers permission to see their grades. The participant group was 64% female, and 88% were of traditional college age, 18 to 22 years old. The study’s findings include:...
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...By: Zeid Malas Date: 21 Aug 2014 Social Networking: Turning the “A” into a “B” Scrolling through notifications and checking every new message, status update, tweet, picture and video is the first and last thing adolescents do on their daily basis. What most of them are not aware of is with this process, they are altering their “A’s” into “B’s”. However, given to its tremendous popularity and use over time, Social Networking has become a genuine time-waster, social and physiological problems-giver, three of which have a noticeable negative influence on adolescents’ academic life leading to a significant decrease in one’s GPA. Although some have argued that there is no direct-connection between Social Networking and GPA, yet many studies have come to prove otherwise. Throughout time, youth generations have always been able to find distractions and time-wasters to entertain and fulfil their bored minds’ desire of escaping academic work and getting over its stresses. Each generation had different tools of distractions than the ones before it; these tools are usually developed by society and technology as years go by. The latest of those tools nowadays go by the name of Social Networks. Social Networks are a of variety of media such as calling, texting, listening to music, social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Myspace…etc.) and anything related to social media in our current times. Famous social networking sites such as Facebook, are simply websites...
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...How Social Media Makes Society Let us take a trip into digital cyberspace and see what we will find. It is a never ending wonderland of bytes of data never before seen by men of different walks of life. Yes, dear reader, we can discover a whole new world in this digital frontier. However, is it worth it to venture the digital landscape if we could find out everything we ever needed to know on the social media landscape? Yes, it is. And in the end, it may be better to find out information outside of social media since social media leads to a possibility of spreading false information, a lack of privacy in one’s daily life, and a facilitation of endangering children through harmful social media sites. All in all, Social Media is more likely to do more evil for the society than it does justice. Forms of digital communication over the internet, such as social media, have become increasingly popular in information transmission since the dawn of the internet in the 1960s (Museum of Science and Industry). Today as of 2013, over 50% of people worldwide receive their information over common social media mediums such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (Kidwali and Imperatore). Mediums such as radio, television, and print publication have slowly dropped in use. With this rapid increase in information being spread over social media, any individual with a decent understanding of the English language and a terminal to the greater World Wide Web can become just as credible as any well-established...
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...DISTRACTIONS ON THE STUDY HABITS OF STUDENTS IN CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY–CAVITE CITY CAMPUS SCHOOL YEAR 2014 – 2015 Clyde Louie M. Brosas ------------------------------------------------- Undergraduate thesis proposal presented to the faculty of the Department of Management, Cavite State University-Cavite City Campus, Cavite City in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Management major in Marketing Management with Contribution No. __________. Prepared under the supervision of Mr. Frinze Al A. Bernal. INTRODUCTION Distractions are the division of the attention of the individual from the chosen object or task; it could be from internal or external forces. This may be attributed to lack of interest or lack of attention given to the object or certain task. Distractions are affecting the daily lives of people. The level of tolerance to these distractions may differ between people. Students are also exposed to different distractions that may affect their study habits. Students are exposed to distractions in and out of the school, every student may have 1 or more distractions and each one of them may differ from each other. Internal forces are forces that act on an object or scenario within the system of the student. Emotions, personal problems, hunger, are some of the examples of internal forces that may cause distractions. While noise extracurricular activities and work are examples of external forces that may...
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...Social Media is the most trending thing on the internet. There are many ranges of apps, but are they helping or hurting teenagers? The article, “Student Examines Negative Effects of Social Media on Teens” by Aurelie Krakowsky is about how social media is harmful to teens. The second article, “Social Media Isn’t All Bad For Kids” by Kelly Wallace is about how social media is helpful to teens. Social media can be helpful; however there is more evidence to support that it is harmful to teens. One reason social media is not helpful is because social media is a distraction and can lead to health issues and diseases. According to the article, “She believes that social media is not only a distraction to teenagers who have become addicted to checking...
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...Karpinski, a researcher from Ohio State University says that students who use Facebook are underachieving in exams. Instead of spending time doing the assignments and work, students would rather to sit, face on the screen and checking updates on Facebook. Study shows students who spend more time on Facebook spend less time in studying. User students spend time for five hours studying while students who are non-users studied eleven to fifteen hours per week which has significant that Facebook users have an averaged of low grades rather than those non-users. Karpinski added that there may be other factors that can affects the study habit of students such as personality traits that link Facebook use and lower grades and some students would still find other ways to avoid studying that still get lower grades. Sharon Gaudin from ComputerWorld Company says that college students have always had study distraction from video games to parties and other entertainments. But Facebook really takes distractions in the study. Bored students can spend hours updating accounts, check new updates, looking at pictures and playing games or any applications on the site. And because of modernization, mobile phones and mini laptop with wifi source which presence of Facebook can go anywhere. As Paul Kirshner author of the daily mail quoted that most students who have Facebook account affects not only the study habits but also the task at home. Students tend to be a multitasking person to keep updated and to...
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