Whether too many IT Equipments Influence Students' Studies?----ByMaJunna

Hey girls, I’m MaJunna, Riley. It’s so nice to have group discussions with you!

To be honest, I have a plant of questions to ask. I will find them one by one. Let me start with a small question which I keep on thinking about it for a long time.---How to evaluate or estimate whether a student is spacing out or distracted?

You may say it is nothing about IT Education. But I want to say: do you remember we talked whether video games influence students’ studies? Dr. Jingyan said some research reports showed that the students who always play video games are bad at academics. But why they are bad at academics? In my experience, these students who use electronic equipments (including TV, ipad, smart phone, video games,etc.) all day and can’t live without these equipments, are always distracted in my classes. So, if they can’t pay close attention to my words, they must miss a lot knowledge of this academics. The more they miss, the worse academic results they get.

Do you get my logic?

My thinking way is this: play too much video games----can’t concentrate on classes----miss too much academic knowledge----can’t catch up with other students----be bad at academics.

So today I want to focus on the first link. And concerning about the first link, I think we should give a definition----what is “can’t concentrate on classes” ?

“Be distracted” is opposite to “concentrate on”. How can we estimate when a student is spacing out? Is there any scientific measurement? Except doing some special tests on students.