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‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops
(www.dazeddigital.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I used to be easily distracted during online lectures yet had little difficulty following live lectures. It's a fundamentally different experience, for whatever reason.
Also, the attention span has to be trained. And training it by working without a distracting computer sounds like a good idea.