I have had lectures where I have had a laptop/iPad/phone and ones where I’ve not had any. i did get distracted, but I found that if I didn’t have say Twitter I’

I have had lectures where I have had a laptop/iPad/phone and ones where I’ve not had any. i did get distracted, but I found that if I didn’t have say Twitter I’d get distracted for longer. With Twitter I’d catch up on my news feed and then a few minutes later be back to concentrating. Without it I’d end up day dreaming and losing focus for 10-20 minutes. The biggest problem isn’t distractions, or computers and social media. It’s that hour long lectures are an awful method of transferring information. In my first year we had small groups of ~8 people and a student from 3rd/4th year and we’d go through problems from the maths and programming lectures. I learnt much more in these. Honestly learning would be much more improved if lectures were condensed into half an hour YouTube videos you can pause, speed up and rewind. Then have smaller groups in which you can interact with the lecturers/assistants.