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Students increasingly support banning laptops from classrooms. Multifunction screens fragment attention and block learning. (www.thecrimson.com)

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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

It's astonishing that you wrote the counter to your own argument within your argument.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Source: whatever?