digital nation - life on the virtual frontier

Multitasking at M.I.T.

At M.I.T, one of the world's most competitive universities, we found a stark contrast between students' and teachers' views on laptops in the classroom. Are they a massive distraction, or a valuable tool for a generation of multitaskers?

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posted February 2, 2010