[T]echnology use [by students] in class has become a norm, something that I feel not only distracts and prevents us from understanding and learning class material, but also disrespects professors and other speakers in the academic setting of the University… If you do not think you can get through class without falling to this temptation, it may be in your best interest to try another method of note-taking such as returning to the olden days of pen and paper. You might still get distracted by daydreaming, but it is much easier to snap out of a daydream than it is to pull yourself away from the Internet.
This University of Virginia student responds to one of the most idiotic claims tech-pushers make: There’s no difference between surfing and daydreaming, between clicking through one visual world after another and doodling.