Students use personal devices to help take notes and keep up with class work. A popular device used in the classroom is the laptop. Students in the college level takes notes on their laptops to stay organized and to easily copy notes that are missed from other students and online. The concern is that laptops can be distracting or hinder learning. Martin Tallvid, Johan Lundin, Lars Svensson, and Berner Lindström, preformed a survey on one on one distractions with laptops in the classroom. They performed the study because there is an ever growing pressure on teachers to let students use laptops or don’t use laptops (Tallvid, Lundin, Svensson, Lindstorm 237).The study was structured around sanctioned and unsanctioned use in the classroom. In this study and many others involving laptop use it was a fifty-fifty split between distracted use and learning use. Also in these studies students are not advised on what to do with the student’s laptop. If students have use for the laptop in class or advised on helpful ways to use the laptop these number could change for the
Students use personal devices to help take notes and keep up with class work. A popular device used in the classroom is the laptop. Students in the college level takes notes on their laptops to stay organized and to easily copy notes that are missed from other students and online. The concern is that laptops can be distracting or hinder learning. Martin Tallvid, Johan Lundin, Lars Svensson, and Berner Lindström, preformed a survey on one on one distractions with laptops in the classroom. They performed the study because there is an ever growing pressure on teachers to let students use laptops or don’t use laptops (Tallvid, Lundin, Svensson, Lindstorm 237).The study was structured around sanctioned and unsanctioned use in the classroom. In this study and many others involving laptop use it was a fifty-fifty split between distracted use and learning use. Also in these studies students are not advised on what to do with the student’s laptop. If students have use for the laptop in class or advised on helpful ways to use the laptop these number could change for the