Our world has changed a lot since the 1800’s mainly because of computers. They’ve revolutionized our world to where you can simply look up what you want instead of scouring the library for your needed material. Laptops seem to have everything, nothing really bad about them. Except distractions. Some people think that laptops are great and cause no real distraction. But most think that laptops are bad because of all the access people have, and how it can be used. While technology does have its benefits, in the classroom laptops are harming students.
Computers are a distraction. In the article “Computers Use Distracting” is shows a quote,” students are often distracted by whatever they’re doing on the computer.” Often times when your doing schoolwork online, you always tend to get dragged into the distraction that are much more frequent in the newer technology. Laptops are more harming to students than helping because you have just an open area of doing whatever you want on a computer, but not staying on task and staying undistracted. Another article called, “Attention, Students; Put Your Laptops Away.” a …show more content…
In the article “Attention, Students; Put Your Laptops Away”. A quote says,” The students taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective- because you can’t write as fast as you can type.” This quote tells how The reason behind forgetting your notes while typing is because typing is limited, and not as creative as writing. Handwriting is different to every person, but typing you have the exact same font with no fluctuation of the letters then there isn’t any real creativity in the writing, making it a lot harder to remember. Plus, you can type much faster on a keyboard than writing on paper; thus, you get more done and can copy word for word. When writing you should do it your own way and not copying everything as they are written. Making laptops not only a distraction, but a hard way to