Now now a days it has been very normal to use computers in school. With computers also comes the internet witch has resultet in lower exam results by students who were using facebook while working. It has been said that students using facebook while working scored on average 20 percent lower than students who did not. Why is it that students use facebook in school? Do they have too little to do or is it because they think school work is boring? Profesor Paul Kirschner who wrote a paper about how facebook is affecting your studies said this: "While people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less time, the reality is that it extends the amount of time needed to carry out tasks and leads to more mistakes". This quote makes very good sense to me, because when you do many things at the same time you don't get to really "dig in" your subject and learn everything properly so you may have to use more time outside of school for school work. The daily mail wrote that people not using facebook in school also spent 88 percent more time studying outside of lessons than the ones who did. Is this because students get's to obsessed with facebook so they have to be online at all times to check notifications, chat with friends and maybe even play those silly facebook games? And should the schools put up a barring on this page? Or would students then only find other things to do on their computers anyways?
My advice is to stay out of facebook during school, because it will be much easier to follow the work you are given in class.
Shirin
I think that is good advice. And also leave Facebook alone when studying for test. And then you can look as a reward when you are done!
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