Study on Text Messaging During Class

I finally got around to reading something I took a picture of when I saw it in the Science Building at CCSF:  an article from Science Daily on text messaging during class.  "Rethinking College Students' Self-Regulation and Sustained Attention:  Does Text Messaging During Class Influence Cognitive Learning?"  Apparently this came out in 2011 and was in print in Communication Education.  The co-authors are Y. Ken Wang, PhD, assistant professor of management and education, and Michael Klausner, Ph D, associate professor of sociology, both at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Apr. 4, 2012 — College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, finds a new study accepted for publication in the National Communication Association's journal Communication Education.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120404101822.htm

What concerns me most about their wanting to use their individual search engines to find identify or define something we're talking about in class is that they're not in class when they're doing that, so they're not with us.