With the new Surface Pro easily at hand to students, some teachers have upgraded to different types of programs to utilize the material such as OneNote and Canvas.

With more use of the tablet, sometimes comes more time to pay less attention in class as well.

Some students tend to play games instead of taking notes, etc.

“I tend to play games a lot when I already know what the teacher is teaching,” freshman Adam Staul said. “Sometimes I feel like I know 95 percent of what they are saying.”

Other students actually utilize their time wisely and tend to pay attention.

“I actually take notes in important classes like government,” senior Dylan Davis said. “But other classes like GPS I play games or if we have free time in a class, too.”

GPS tends to be the most times that students play games and become unproductive.

“Most of the time, I play games in GPS,” sophomore Ashton Balthazor said. “But only when I have nothing else to do.”

A small portion of students don’t seem to use their tablet even hardly at all.

“I don’t really use my tablet all that much for notes of quizzes,” sophomore Brendan Chapman said. “Most of our stuff is on paper.”

Junior Ryan Will said he simply doesn’t play games because he doesn’t like the tablet for his gaming device.

“I just prefer to play games on a different device,” Will said. “I don’t like playing games on my tablet.”

According to students, playing games on their tablet is usually when they are bored or don’t have much to do but the majority use their time wisely.

Sophomore Kori Beckman said she always is doing what she is supposed to on the tablet and freshman Tanner Haselhorst agrees.

“I always pay attention,” Haselhorst said. “I think it is important to do so.”

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