Abstract
Pupils use working memory in a wide variety of tasks, for remembering names, numbers, complex sentences, and working instructions. Impairing these functions may cause considerable learning difficulties. Technological advancement has brought about an increasing media usage, contributing to a way of life that is based on multi-tasking and continuous partial attention. Young people today believe that they have the capacity for simultaneous multi-tasking. The present study examined the performance of the working memory system in pupils aged 12-17 in a setting of multi-tasking under distractions in the form of incoming text messages. The study confirms and augments the claims of previous studies regarding the negative effect of distractions caused by mobile media, and particularly by smartphones, on the cognitive performance of school children and university students both in class and in preparing school assignments at home. The present study expands and deepens the existing knowledge in this field and provides an understanding of pupils’ habits of using smartphones and their ways of coping with distractions in the learning process. The findings of this study should help pupils, parents, and education professionals, contributing to heightened awareness and the development of new educational models which would drive the educational system towards an inevitable technological future. (מתוך המאמר)
| Translated title of the contribution | ההשפעה של שימוש בווטסאפ על זיכרון עבודה של בני נוער: : מחקר ניסויי |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | האדם הלומד בעידן הטכנולוגי: כנס צ'ייס למחקרי טכנולוגיות למידה (קובץ) |
| Editors | יורם עשת-אלקלעי |
| Publisher | האוניברסיטה הפתוחה ושה"ם |
| Pages | 3E-11E |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Volume | 13 |
| State | Published - 2018 |
IHP Publications
- ihp
- Mobile apps
- School children
- Smartphones