Academia

Yea, I took notes with pen and paper. You can pry my laptop from my cold dead hands.

Sounds like the problem is too many students packed in a room

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.

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

As someone who was too deaf to hear one professor even when sitting in the front row bc of the acoustics in that room, if there had been a way to read the lecture I would have taken it. That can be done with a printed copy tho, no need for a laptop

If I’d had a laptop in my classroom there’s no way I’d be paying attention to the lecturer.