“I Get Distracted By Their Being Distracted”: The Etiquette of In-Class Texting

Liberated from https://www.academia.edu/870812/_I_Get_Distracted_By_Their_Being_Distracted_The_Etiquette_of_In-Class_Texting on Jan. 10th 2019 Uploaded by Hannah Gerber Views 4,398 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract The prevalent nature of cell phones in college classrooms creates positive and negative issues. Concerns about the effects of using cell phones in class led researchers to administer a questionnaire to 805 students in a college of education regarding their perceptions of in-class cell phone use. The objectives for this qualitative study were to determine participants’ perceptions how cell phone use affects learning, and whether or not cell phone use in class affects professionalism.