Braintrack.com reports on the beneficial effects of a campus blackout of social media earlier this fall:
The campus blackout, which was widely reported in September, blocked access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The survey found that as a result of the exercise, one-quarter of students said they could concentrate in classes better, and 23 percent said they found lectures more interesting. One-third of students said they were less stressed, and several professors said their students understood concepts better through conversation with faculty than after trying to grasp it using social media.
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One student, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education, told the university’s provost, Eric Darr, “that he had to actually talk to his professor during the blackout.”