ENG 1112 Midterm: Globe and Mail Article

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1112
• Professor: Bar- On Santor Gefen

Document Summary

Laptops have replaced pen and paper for many post-secondary students but a canadian study suggests using computers during lectures could be hurting their grades and lowering their classmates" marks. For the study, published earlier this year in the journal computers & education, research subjects in two experiments were asked to attend a university-level lecture and then complete a multiple-choice quiz based on what they learned. It"s the most wonderful time of the year, for some. In the first experiment, which was designed to gauge how multitasking affects learning, all the participants used laptops to take notes during a lecture on meteorology. But half were also asked to complete a series of unrelated tasks on their computers when they felt they could spare some time. Those tasks which included online searches for information were meant to mimic what distracted students might do during class.