Internet use reduces study skills in university students

Internet use reduces study skills in university students -- ScienceDaily

Research has shown that students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about tests. This effect was made worse by the increased feelings of loneliness that use of digital technology produced.

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Research conducted at Swansea University and the University of Milan has shown that students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about tests. This effect was made worse by the increased feelings of loneliness that use of digital technology produced.
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I got my degree in chemistry long before the advent of the internet, so researching the solution to a lab problem meant going over to the library & learning how to find & read things in German text books. That was a valuable experience that internet users may not experience, to their loss.

JacksinPA said:

Internet use reduces study skills in university students -- ScienceDaily

Research has shown that students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about tests. This effect was made worse by the increased feelings of loneliness that use of digital technology produced.

FULL STORY
Research conducted at Swansea University and the University of Milan has shown that students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about tests. This effect was made worse by the increased feelings of loneliness that use of digital technology produced.
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I got my degree in chemistry long before the advent of the internet, so researching the solution to a lab problem meant going over to the library & learning how to find & read things in German text books. That was a valuable experience that internet users may not experience, to their loss.

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The internet can give students the illusion that all knowledge is an internet search away.

In the real world things are not that simple. Acquiring knowledge is not enough. You have to sift through it and synthesize the relevant parts.

Incidentally that is exactly what a good liberal arts education teaches students to do.

Doing scientific or technical research from scratch (i.e. going to the library) involves analytical skills that are not needed in doing a Google search. Finding out where the information you need might be located & then finding it involves cognitive skills that are not needed in doing a computer search.

I was taking German at the same time but my skills in that language had not yet developed. One of the terms involved in the synthesis of the product I needed involved the German word 'zusammenschmelzen.' I had no idea what that referred to but I used my knowledge of the German love of using compound words to figure out that 'zusammen' means 'together' & 'schmelzen' means to melt. So 'zusammenschmelzen' means to 'melt together.' IOW, I has to melt my unknown compound A with a known compound B to produce the desired derivative C. That knowledge worked well enough that I did the chemistry & got a passing grade on the sampole I submitted. But it's a long story....

That long German word can also have very erotic meaning as in 2 people melting together in the act of love.