Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention — to their laptops.

A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are incompatible activities.

Some professors have addressed the fundamental incompatibility of lectures and laptops by banning the laptops. But perhaps it would be better to keep the laptops and ban the lectures. Here’s why.

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