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Are you part of the hive mind? Is your day spent texting and tweeting and chatting and talking on the phone, keeping you completely aligned with her network of friends and associates? This may be a good thing. Who am I to judge? But, if we lose those moments of quiet and sustained concentration, I suspect that a quality of thought will also disappear.

I’ve written about attention in this blog before. I started thinking about it again because of a series of articles about its flip side, distraction. Mobile devices, it seems, have become a real challenge in college classrooms. Professors are fighting back with digital etiquette, and, more creatively, incorporating devices into the lesson.