These concerns have some validity, in my opinion however, if students are taught to regard these tools as learning tools and not toys they can benefit a lot from their usage. Let us not forget, and I am pretty sure we have all done it at some point in our school years, when one is uninterested or bored in a class, all it takes is a pen and a piece of paper and "poof!" "What class? What lecture? What meeting? There is some serious doodling going on here!