School bans Facebook for a week: five lessons students learned

4. Face-to-face friending has its benefits

Newscom
These students of Spellman College's all-girl Spelbots Robotics Team held a "Robot Dance Off," which briefly curtailed their ability to update their Facebook profiles.

Discussions during the blackout week prompted students to find common interests, and spawned a photography club and a diversity club. “It prompted friendships between students that weren’t happening prior to the blackout,” says professor Charles Palmer.

Professors noted that during in-person discussions, students quickly mastered a set of biology concepts that had confused them for weeks when discussed over social media.

4 of 5
You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.