Distracted Learning

Our devices aren’t ruining education, but they’re not helping either

By: Kiana Montakhab, SFU Student Next time you’re in class, take a moment to look around you. Is anyone actually paying attention? Or are we all half-engaged, aimlessly clicking through tabs on our laptops and scrolling through our phones? Is the poor professor up there lecturing to a sea of blank stares, faces dimly lit by the glow of screens? It makes you wonder — are we truly present or just occupying space? To some, these behaviours may look like a lack of discipline. But to me, they reflect a deeper reality — students are adapting to a world where…

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