Yea, I took notes with pen and paper. You can pry my laptop from my cold dead hands.
Counterpoint: If a student doesn’t learn to cope with the distraction of having a laptop, they won’t be prepared for work environments they’ll be dumped into after school.
yes they will. Humans are incredible at adapting.
A person learns better with pencil paper and textbooks. The younger the student is, the more this is true.
It’s astonishing that you wrote the counter to your own argument within your argument.
Sounds like the problem is too many students packed in a room
Honestly, I had a laptop/convertible tablet throughout my studies, and I definitely would not have wanted to be without it. I could draw directly onto the slides, type if necessary (I can type faster than I can write), and I always knew that if I had that thing along, I had everything I needed - no worrying about which binders to bring along and no breaking my back with heavy backpacks.
And when I did get distracted, it usually wasn’t from my computer, but from my phone. Which wasn’t always bad, sometimes it was good to keep myself awake - I’d rather be semi distracted but still semi paying attention than fallen asleep.
So tired of people playing games on their laptops in my college courses. I think their should be exceptions for accessibility, but I think 90% of the time its better off for everyone to just use a binder
I played games on my gaming laptop in college because I already knew the course material. My flavor of neurodivergence also makes it easier to listen if I have something visual to focus on, but I was just there to get a paper that said I know what I know. Kinda interesting to me that people are so riled up about what others are doing in class when it’s not always disruptive though.
Ah yes, because everyone is like you.
or using social media.
If I’d had a laptop in my classroom there’s no way I’d be paying attention to the lecturer.
