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Teachers vs. Cell Phones: Mobile Devices Win

Published: 04 January 2011 Publication History

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Four hundred years before Christ, Plato argued that technology, the written word itself, is distracting students from learning. Teachers today wish students would read a book sometime. The irony is stunning. As a professor, complaints that mobile phones distract from learning are ubiquitous. Text messaging, Facebook, and Twitter are the usual suspect applications.

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cover image eLearn
eLearn  Volume 2011, Issue 1
January 2011
EISSN:1535-394X
DOI:10.1145/1925037
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Published: 04 January 2011
Published in ELEARN Volume 2011, Issue 1

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