1) Student laptop users tend to go off-task when X-(anything) occurs for 4 minutes or more...Apparently, students like variety... and not listening to other students.
2) When professor is engaged in Socratic method with one student...
3) When a classmate engages with professor...
4) When professor is monotone, or, overly uses one linguistic intonation style...
5) Approximately 40 minutes into class...
6) When professor calls on students in expected order...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Things that make law students go "off task."
This is from a study of students using laptops in class, but the researcher was able to gather data that is more generally useful to teachers, because it identified some very specific things that cause the student to look for something to do other than paying attention:
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