As social media become nearly inescapable on college campuses, a pair of recently published studies supports what many professors already have concluded: Students using Facebook or text messaging during a lecture tend to do worse when quizzed later. But wait: Faculty who build Twitter into classwork may be helping students learn better, a 2010 study suggests.

This may be a K-12 article but I could see some of these strategies being used within higher ed. Google Jockeying BYOD (bring your own device) might really work well with Clickers. It may even work well with a Flipped Classroom approach.