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Students Stop Surfing After Being Shown How In-Class Laptop Use Lowers Test Scores

Professors increasingly frustrated by students who use laptops for non-class activities—like updating their Facebook pages—may be heartened by news from the University of Colorado at Boulder. A professor there has found that educating students about the negative effect that frivolous laptop use has on their performance reduces class time spent going walkabout on the Web.

Why would teachers use Diigo? I’ve been asked this question no less than a dozen times in the past week and I thought it would be a good idea if we began compiling a list of responses.

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