Jezebel...yes you are right and it is amazing to me that in a few short years students are practically glued to their computers (not to mention their cell phones, etc.)

A few years ago (1988 in fact) I spent a summer studying at Oxford in a summer study-abroad program. We usually had to write at least one paper for our three week seminars. Typewriters were available for our use, or we could hand-write them (neatly!) This was weird but we dealt with it. There was one guy in my T.S. Eliot seminar who could not write his paper without a computer. Just could not do it.

And it was not about needing the Internet for research etc. (which sadly is the trend now; I teach at Emerson College and my students hardly know what the library is). He had learned how to write an essay with a word processor and its cut and paste features and a fast keyboard...but a pen and paper were useless to him. I don't know if he had some sort of learning disorder or cognitive disorder which made him unable to write without a keyboard, but then you'd think he'd be able to use a typewriter...

Sad, really.