It has been hailed as the death of spelling and punctuation. But in fact texting does not affect students’ grammar and spelling, a new study has found. Researchers claim there is no evidence to suggest youngsters using textspeak – where young people miss punctuation and shorten words in messages – affected their understanding of English.
Even the smartest college students suffer academically when they use the Internet in class for non-academic purposes, researchers have warned. They say that the huge number of students who take phones, tablets and laptops to lecture could be seeing their grades slip. The researchers say students would perform better without their gadgets – but admit
Experts have warned that the obsession with recording and sharing every moment could be having an adverse effect on our memories. One psychologist has claimed people are becoming increasingly unable to live in the moment. They say the phenomenon is ‘kind of a loss’. Maryanne Garry, a psychology professor at the Victoria University of Wellington
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Classroom walls are traditionally covered in maps, drawings and paintings. However, researchers have found that the colourful covering could actually be distracting pupils. The key to learning effectively, they found, was clear walls. ‘Young children spend a lot of time — usually the whole day — in the same classroom, and we have shown that