Digital Distractions in the College Classroom

  • 8h 14m
  • Abraham Edward Flanigan, Jackie HeeYoung Kim
  • IGI Global
  • 2022

Student misuse of mobile technology for off-task purposes has become an international phenomenon in college classrooms. When a student’s self-regulation of learning breaks down in the classroom, or when their task motivation begins to wane, turning toward their digital devices for leisure purposes is often the result. Although numerous studies have independently examined student digital distraction in the context of the college classroom, there remains a need to organize the field’s collective understanding of the phenomenon.

Digital Distractions in the College Classroom explores the challenges that arise from student digital distraction along with potential solutions, including how mobile technology can be leveraged to improve student motivation, self-regulation of learning, and achievement. Addressing topics such as academic motivation and instructional design, this book is ideal for instructional designers, instructors, researchers, administrators, academicians, and students.

About the Author

Abraham E. Flanigan is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Flanigan's primary research examines the interplay among mobile technology, self-regulation of learning, and academic motivation. Dr. Flanigan also investigates (and delivers professional development workshops on) the initiation and maintenance of student-instructor rapport in face-to-face and online classes. Dr. Flanigan has served in numerous leadership roles within the Studying and Self-Regulated Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and within the Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education.

Jackie HeeYoung Kim (Ed.D), is an assistant professor at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, GA, where she has taught online classes and childhood education courses for the past six years. She taught technology integration courses for preservice teachers at State University of New York Cortland for two years before joining Georgia Southern in 2007. Her publications related to technology integration in the classroom and distance education have appeared in numerous professional journals and books and she has given many presentations at professional meetings. She enjoys Southern living, writing, and teaching in coastal Georgia.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • Understanding and Reacting to the Digital Distraction Phenomenon in College Classrooms
  • Defining Terms and Selecting Metaphors to Understand Technology in the Classroom—a Semantical Discussion
  • How Digital Distractions Influence Learner Information Processing
  • Dividing Attention and Metacognition
  • The Role of Self-Regulation in Experiences of Digital Distraction in College Classrooms
  • Learning in the Face of Digital Distractions—Empowering Students to Practice Self-Regulated Learning
  • Digital Distractions, Note-Taking, and Student Learning
  • Applying SOAR Strategies to Curb Digital Distractions While Note Taking and Studying
  • Smartphone-Induced Digital Distractions—Using Social Cognitive Theory and Self-Regulated Learning to Frame the Challenge
  • From Digital Distraction to Digital Motivation—Utopia or Reality
  • Disrupting the College Classroom Experience—Avoiding Technology Pitfalls
  • Student Perspectives on Distraction and Engagement in the Synchronous Remote Classroom
  • Compilation of References
SHOW MORE
FREE ACCESS