How the Mobile Phone Affects Learning and Homework

Experts claim that this use of mobile phones harms concentration and lowers productivity.

In researching the influence of mobile phones in the cognitive capacity, students leaving their mobile phones in another room performed better on cognitive tests than those with mobile phones at a table or in a bag, although they do not use them.

Even those who said they did not knowingly think of their mobile phones had worse results, which means intervention is taking place on an unconscious level.

As you work, it is difficult for adults to ignore messages and reports that inform us as soon as one of our friends posts something on social networks or answers to something we have posted, but there are additional reasons why children and young people are especially attached to mobile phones.

Most of young people's association occurs today through mobile phones, especially in adolescence, when the main goals of development are to form a person's parents ' identity and to favor friendships with peers.

And compared with adults, children have less impulse control. This makes it much harder for them to give priority to write a homework assignment or to study for a test than, for example, corruption with new friends, the Kosova Preris broadcasts.

The children will start the task and try to perform it, but they will not take time to think and discover how to do it in the best possible way”, says Matt Cruger, clinical psychologist and director of the Teaching and Development Centre at the non-profit American Institute, Child Mind.

On Child Mind Institute's website, they recommend setting up a homework routine that will reduce distractions, especially if the child has difficulty following or requires more time to write his homework.

Organize in advance when and on what day your children should not keep cell phones. Let them realize that the goal is to make writing easier and less stressful, and to give them more leisure time.

You can also plan regular holidays when your child can leave the table by writing a homework assignment and checking social networks or text messages on their mobile phones.