Background
When searching for a study done similar to ours, we couldn’t find one directly associated with ours. Instead we found studies of attention span of people to compare with how long people could watch announcements. the first, http://www.statisticbrain.com/attention-span-statistics/ , where it shows the average attention span of people in 2013 and in 2000. the website also has a few other statistics such as memory dealing with everyday life. Attention span is the amount of concentrated time on a task without becoming distracted. Most educators and psychologists agree that the ability to focus attention on a task is crucial for the achievement of one’s goals. In our case, the ability to focus and extract important information is what we try to find seeing if students watch the announcements and if we can conclude if they pay any attention to the important things in them.
A second study proves that the use of internet (wifi,hotspots,3G and 4G internet) decreases the attention span of kids and even adults. http://www.theguardian.com explains how not making people wait to obtain information makes them impatient which leads to not paying attention. They back it up by saying 32% of consumers start abandoning slow loading websites. We can compare this statistic to students watching announcements in the way that if the announcements are boring or don’t grab your attention, you will ignore and even put your head down to isolate yourself from the source. this study has also made a few other good points.
The best point that this website makes a very good point with regards to internet use. The study showed that kids from the ages of 6-14 is crucial to what they are exposed to. This means that the more they use these internet based devices the shorter the attention span of the kid. This is tied to our study because were finding how long kids from 9th to 11th grade watch announcements played in their lunch/study halls. by them telling us how long we can compare that number to how long they can pay attention to the announcements, whether entertaining or not.