Step 1: Read all the information below carefully. According to Derek Thompson, staff writer for The Atlantic, for the past few years, parents, researchers, and the news media have paid closer attention between smartphone use and mental health of teens. Researchers such as Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge have found various measures of student well-being began a sharp decline around 2012 in the U.S., just as smartphones and social media emerged as the "attentional centerpiece of teenage life." Some researchers have even suggested that smartphone use is so corrosive, it's systematically reducing student achievement and impacting the ability to listen effectively. Step 2: Write your response to the questions below. Effective listening is critical to our development of shared meaning and understanding. One increasingly prominent environmental distraction in the classroom is the use of smartphones and laptops for activities other than taking notes. Does the use of smartphones and laptops drastically impede the ability to listen effectively? Why or why not