English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:17:29Hindi Podcast Start at 00:25:25🎙️✨ Welcome back to another episode of Revise and Resubmit! ✨🎙️This is the show where groundbreaking research meets real-world curiosity, where ivory towers meet classroom chalkboards... or should we say, smartphone screens? 📱🧠Today, we’re diving into a question every teacher has asked, every student has battled, and every school policymaker is still debating:Are smartphones in the classroom making our students smarter—or just more distracted? 🤔📚💥In a compelling new study titled👉 "From Smartphones to Smart Students: Learning vs. Distraction Using Smartphones in the Classroom"authors Zhe Deng, Zhi (Aaron) Cheng, Pedro Ferreira, and Paul A. Pavlou—yes, the Paul Pavlou—explore this digital dilemma with sharp precision and rich insight.Through real-world experiments in vocational schools across China, this research does more than just count test scores. It dissects classroom behavior through video analysis, maps learning gains against distractions, and reveals surprising truths about how smartphones can both widen and narrow educational gaps across gender, academic ability, and geography. 🌏🎥📈Is it the device that distracts… or the way we use it that makes the difference?Should teachers ban smartphones altogether—or harness their power as educational allies? 💡📵➡️📲🤯 Could a simple prompt from a teacher turn a distraction machine into a learning booster?This study is published in the prestigious FT50-listed journal Information Systems Research, a heavyweight in the world of academic publishing, and proudly brought to us by INFORMS.🙏 A huge thank you to the authors for this essential contribution to education and information systems research.If this episode made you think—or made you question what you do when that phone buzzes—then hit Subscribe on Spotify 🎧, YouTube at Weekend Researcher 📺, and don't miss us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts too! 🍎🟡🎉 You won't want to miss what we’re revising—and resubmitting—next.Now tell me this:📲 If a smartphone rings in a classroom, and the student learns something new... was it a distraction—or a tool?Let’s find out. 👀👇ReferenceZhe Deng, Zhi (Aaron) Cheng, Pedro Ferreira, Paul A. Pavlou (2025) From Smartphones to Smart Students: Learning vs. Distraction Using Smartphones in the Classroom. Information Systems Research, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2022.0078‌‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher

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