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There is bad news for students [who / whom] like to use their mobile phones while they study. New research shows that students do not [learnt / learn] very well when they are texting and checking their [socially / social] media accounts. The research is [calling / called] : "Mobile Phones in the Classroom: Examining the Effects of Texting, Twitter, and Message Content on Student Learning". Researchers [looked / look] at 145 American university students in the classroom. Some of the students [used / usage] their mobile phones during class, while the others had their phones [switch / switched] off. The head researcher, Dr Jeffrey Kuznekoff, said students who did not use [them / their] mobile phones [while / among] the teacher was talking got higher scores on tests they took at the [end / ended] of the class.

Kuznekoff said that [once / one] of the biggest challenges teachers have in the classroom is the non-stop battle of [keeping / kept] students working. He said many students felt they [needy / needed] to be online and checking [message / messages] even when they had important [working / work] to do in class. The researchers said it is very [common / commons] for students to be physically present in class, but [mentally / mental] absent because they are using their mobiles. Kuznekoff said teachers were [fought / fighting] a "losing battle" because students were more interested [in / on] social media than learning. The London School of Economics did a study in England and found that test scores increased by six per cent after mobile phones were [bans / banned] in class.