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Digital Literacy And Its Distractions

Love it or hate it, we live in Digital age and there is no going back. Today Tsunami of Digital distractions can pose challenges to the Neural networking that regulate attention. Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share and create content and design nuanced communication across fluid digital forms. Managing Digital distractions is a learning skill in itself, so by banning personal devices, the learners will be deprived of the opportunity to develop this skill. In less than three decades, computer technology has moved from being in the room (Desktop) to being anywhere we like (Laptop) and now computers have shrunk to fit in a pocket, to be always in our hands (Smartphones). This has ushered in a culture of nonstop use that is compulsive and , quite simply distracting. Our connectedness is now so that as per one study- we pick up our devices every 12 minutes which is roughly 80 times during one day's working hours. Following steps to gauge the extent o