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College Kids Know When To Just Say No (To Technology)

According to a new study that observed and interviewed 560 college students in 11 libraries around the country, 61 percent of students who are in the throes of exam time reported that they opened "only one or two websites at a time". Furthermore...

According to a new study that observed and interviewed 560 college students in 11 libraries around the country, 61 percent of students who are in the throes of exam time reported that they opened “only one or two websites at a time”. Furthermore,

Many visited the library to limit technology-based distractions, while some simply left their laptops at home. Even their behavior toward distractions like Facebook changed, using time with social media as a reward after 15, 30, or 60 minutes of study…. Says Author Allison Head: “Students may be applying self-styled strategies for dialing down technology when the pressure is most on them.”

When the historians of the future excavate the technologies of the early 21st century, will they classify them as tools or as drugs?

“Balancing Act: How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library During Crunch Time,” (pdf), submitted to Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society for peer review and publication.