This time in International English we got a task to discuss an article called "Facebook hits exam results by 20 per cent" and then write about it in our blog.
Here is a link to the article
Basically the article says that the students who used Facebook (or any other social networking site) during their study-time, scored lower on their exam results than the students who did not use the website while studying. The test shows that the students who did not use Facebook while studying scored on average 3,82 out of four, meanwhile the student who used the website scored a grad point average of 3,06. This was based on 219 students aged from 19 to 54.
The study was made by Professor Kirschner from the Open University in The Netherlands, and it also showed that non-users of Facebook also spend 88 per cent more time studying outside of the lessons. I think this is because you get a lot more done if you aren't doing anything also besides studying, and then you will have more free-time. When you are doing many things at the same time, it's easier to make mistakes and you need more time to get your work done.
I think that the reason people who have Facebook score lower on their exams is that you get so easily distracted and if you start chatting with someone for instance, you won't be able to stop. When I was writing this blog post, I caught myself logging on to Facebook a couple of times, just automatically. This shows how addicted the youth and any Facebook-user has become of the website, and this has a bad impact on our studying.The moral of the article is definitely that when you are studying you should stick to that, and not log on to different social networks, because then it's hard to log off again and continue with the studying. We should all limit our time spent on Facebook, or at least put off special time for that activity, and not mix that time with study-time.
- Anna
That sounds like good advice to me.
SvarSlett