Smartphone reminders found to have negative impact on learning times

Study app routine during the intervention phase. Credit: npj Science of Learning (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41539-024-00253-7 Do smartphone reminders encourage pupils to engage regularly with learning material? Researchers at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education investigating this question came to the conclusion that simple reminders such as push notifications tend to have a negative effect on learning times. It is true that pupils learn more often on days when they are reminded than on days without reminders. Overall, however, a control group that was never reminded studied on more days. These findings are published in the Read More