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Use of Digital Devices in University
3.1.1. Digitised learning preference.
The first group which consists of those students who primarily use digital
technologies for studying is named as the digitised learning group. They use smartphones,
laptops, tablets, iPhones and Kindles for making their regular interaction with the study
materials The students are provided with Cloud based distribution systems like Google drive
and Google classroom and with the help of these systems they are provided the study
materials (Buzzard et al., 2011). The study materials are read on the devices and on the same
they take comments and highlight the specific areas on those same devices. The students of
this group enjoy certain benefits by using the digital devices in the classroom but these
benefits are limited to learning, memorising and accessing the relevant areas of the
documents easily with the help of numerous functions like keyboard search base, fast
transition to a particular page number (Buzzard et al., 2011). However, the use of digital
devices in the classroom has one drawback and this drawback has been reported by the
students. They complained that they are unable to take notes efficiently. The students have
complained that most of them have to switch over notebooks and pens for taking notes and
that they use later when needed. Few of the students prefer taking the direct textual notes
while others write down the important points and later they use symbols for connecting those
points (Weaver & Nilson, 2005). This way of taking notes is time consuming for most of the
students as they are using digital devices so they mostly have to rely on the task of typing
along with taking explicit textual notes. Another issue has been posted by the students that it
is difficult for them to retain them for a longer period of time. On the other hand, in the short
term retention they do not face much difficulties. Again, in terms of content accuracy, they
are not being provided with the ample details at the time of the tests as they focus most of
their times on too many sources of the content.

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