The tech promising to make lectures more interesting

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For Jennifer Kasiama, a student at Toronto’s Ontario College of Art and Design, 2020 was an incredibly frustrating year.

Like so many others, her course become all-virtual when the pandemic took hold. “I spent so much time on my laptop, I definitely got Zoom fatigue,” says Ms Kasiama, 20.

“My attention wasn’t as focused as I’ve been with in-person classrooms, and my grades definitely suffered in the first semester.”

After struggling in the autumn she began to monitor her screen habits, while also managing her time more successfully. In the second term her grades inched up.

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