The notion of using a computer to be productive in class is desirable, but walk into your average college classroom and you'll see ~50% of the computer users on

The notion of using a computer to be productive in class is desirable, but walk into your average college classroom and you'll see ~50% of the computer users on Facebook. In one of my classes the kid in front of me would straight up watch Netflix or The Daily Show. And bear in mind this was a top private school. I used a computer through most of my classes in college to "take notes." Personally I took a computer to every class, and was taking notes <10% of the time. Most of the time I was reading stuff that I did care about (and do use today, as opposed to most of what was being taught to me in class), but the notion of using a computer in the class to be more productive in the class was just a cop-out I used to pursue what I was interested in.