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The co-location of academic work and
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temptation on the same exact device,
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literally within pixels of each other,
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within a swipe of each other, within a
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click of each other. The analogy I would
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give you is it's like asking kids salad
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in the middle of a bakery, right? You
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can do it, but you know, there are a lot
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of other things that you would prefer.
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And I feel the same way about myself
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with no disrespect to my colleagues,
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because as you know, I love this
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university with all my heart and soul.
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But I have to go to boring meetings,
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right? Who doesn't? And if I have my
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laptop, the temptation to stop taking
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notes on the meeting and to just go peek
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at my inbox, right?
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Go look up that thing that I was looking
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up 5 minutes before the meeting. It is
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so strong and we are finding in our data
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the same pattern with kids. We added a
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question this school year. I told you
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that the survey started last year we're
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extending it. We added a question, which
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is what percentage of students do you
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suspect are doing personal things like
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texting or social media from their
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laptop in class. And a striking one in
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three students, according to American
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school teachers, are currently using
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their laptops for non-academic purposes
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during the school day. And as a
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professor, again, I love my students,
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literally love
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them. But if I let them use their
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laptops in my class, I think the
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percentage would be similar, if not
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higher.
