(from The New York Times) A growing body of evidence suggests that college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. They also tend to earn worse grades. Laptops distract from learning, both for the users and those around them, which makes a compelling case for banning them in the classroom, argues a professor at the University of Michigan. "It's not much of a leap to expect that laptops undermine learning in high school classrooms and hurt productivity in meetings in all kinds of workplaces," she writes. Scientists hypothesize that students writing by hand must process information unlike those with laptops who can transcribe more of what a lecturer says.
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