Here’s a shocker: Students who send and receive text messages while completing a reading assignment take longer to complete their reading. But counterintuitively, they still manage to understand what they’re reading, according to a study reported in Education Week.
The students interrupted by messages during their reading performed just as well as uninterrupted readers on a comprehension test. “Researchers theorized that one reason that the multitasking students did as well—but took longer—may be that they went back and reread passages after they paused to answer instant messages,” EdWeek reports.
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