▲ 440 ▼ ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops (www.dazeddigital.com) submitted 1 year ago by faizalr@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains
[+] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) I have ADHD and didn't get diagnosed or medicated until after I was out of school. I basically had two options: pay attention in class or attempt to take notes. I had so many teachers in grade school complain I didn't take notes, or do homework but that was a different complaint. The issue was that when I took notes I would miss chunks of information as I was writing and my writing was basically illegible because I was trying to put it down fast. If I slowed down to make it neat I would miss even more information. So any notes I took would be next to useless and I wouldn't remember anything. And that's without even determining what I needed to write down. Grade school was also slow passed and repetitive enough that most of the time I could sit and watch or doodle while listening and retain the information. Basically the only thing I struggled with was spelling because it was just rote memorization. College was a bit harder in some cases beyond general ed, but for the classes I needed to study for I was able to re-watch the recorded lectures and take the time to write stuff out since I could rewind and pause. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) I have ADHD and didn't get diagnosed or medicated until after I was out of school. I basically had two options: pay attention in class or attempt to take notes. I had so many teachers in grade school complain I didn't take notes, or do homework but that was a different complaint. The issue was that when I took notes I would miss chunks of information as I was writing and my writing was basically illegible because I was trying to put it down fast. If I slowed down to make it neat I would miss even more information. So any notes I took would be next to useless and I wouldn't remember anything. And that's without even determining what I needed to write down. Grade school was also slow passed and repetitive enough that most of the time I could sit and watch or doodle while listening and retain the information. Basically the only thing I struggled with was spelling because it was just rote memorization. College was a bit harder in some cases beyond general ed, but for the classes I needed to study for I was able to re-watch the recorded lectures and take the time to write stuff out since I could rewind and pause. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)