It refers to something or someone that consumes a large amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive. Digital distracters are time thieves.
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From Digital Distraction to Digital Motivation: Utopia or Reality
María A. Pérez-Juárez (University of Valladolid, Spain), Javier M. Aguiar-Pérez (University of Valladolid, Spain), Javier Del-Pozo-Velázquez (University of Valladolid, Spain), Miguel Alonso-Felipe (University of Valladolid, Spain), Saúl Rozada-Raneros (University of Valladolid, Spain), and Mikel Barrio Conde (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9243-4.ch010
Abstract
The presence of technology on college campuses has increased rapidly in recent years. Students come to the classroom with a variety of technological devices including smart phones, tablets, or laptops and use them during academic activity. For this reason, there are many researchers who, in recent times, have been interested in the problems derived from digital distraction in higher education. In many cases, researchers have conducted studies and surveys to obtain first-hand information from the protagonists, that is, from university professors and students. Despite the efforts, there are many questions that still remain unanswered. The authors are aware of the enormous challenge that the use of technology poses in the university classrooms and want to delve into the causes and consequences of student digital distraction and the strategies that can be used by instructors to curb student digital distraction without deteriorating student-instructor rapport in the context of higher education.