Yes, and no, social network can distract a student like YouTube or face book, while it can be used as a tool for studying and to put your google documents in the cloud. plus if a teacher posts homework on his/her website, and you happen to forget the paper bringing it home, you can just simply print it instead of having to explain to the teacher
Technology does distract you from education, because of social media and mobile games it makes people procrastinate on doing homework or any kind of school assignments.
