ABSTRACT
Whereas in the previous chapter, the focus was on digital technologies and what they do with learners and their learning activity, this chapter broadens the view and asks, conversely, what learners do with digital technologies in their learning activity. In particular, it explores how university students experience digital technologies and where they see the potential and limitations of the devices for their own learning. Discussions with students in groups and individual interviews, participant observation, and experience reports provide the empirical basis for this chapter. The chapter describes for which aspects of their learning activities students find digital technologies helpful and enriching. It also explores the problems and challenges that students encounter, focusing on one of the main problems that arises in a particular way in the new context of the digitally mediated practice of learning: the dilemma of digital distraction.
