Treat internet addicted students at Campus. At Santa Monica College, it’s usual to see students who are connected to the internet through their electronic devices. They can be divided to three different types of groups. One group who surfs on the internet to spend their free time. Students in this group use internet to watch a video, to check social network like Facebook, or Tweeter. The other group connect to internet to read their eBooks, or to do their online assigned homework. Finally, the last group is the students who use internet even in their class or in their studying hours. Doing more than one type of activities as the last group of students do, is multitasking which is very common among the students, and multitasking reduces student’s focus. Therefore, Santa Monica College should abolishes internet to prevent multitasking, and to avoid plagiarism which helps students to perform better, and more active in their classes.
Multitasking is one of the side effect of accessing to internet for student. It’s very popular among students to use internet during their lecture times in the classes. Then, students cannot have all of their concentration on learning a new topic in their classes because they distract themselves by texting, or checking Facebook. As David Meyer, who is a psychology professor at university of Michigan believes “Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex task at same time” (Paul 3). It means that doing non-related activities in the class while students are listening to lecture is impossible for the brain. Consequently, students cannot performance well because their learning decreases, and it’s obvious they won’t get good grades on their test when they don’t learn the topic well. Therefor...
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...ze, they can reduce students’ overall grades, their activities in their courses, and their performance. Santa Monica College can arrange classes to introduce students about researching from book, because one of the reason that student use internet, is they wasn’t taught how they can write a research paper base on published articles, and books. Rothenberg, who is a professor of philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, believes that” It’s also my fault…. I need to teach students how to read, to take time with language and ideas, to work through arguments, to synthesize disparate sources to come up with original thought” (Rothenberg 70).
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Paul, Annie Murphy. "You'll Never Learn." Slate.3 May 2013. Web.
Rothenberg, David. “How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers”.
The Chronicle of Higher Education. August 15, 1997. Print
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