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‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops (www.dazeddigital.com)
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The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains

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[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.

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.

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