In a time where digital tools and new technology are promoted in education, Carlo Rotella breaks from the norm to focus on a digital-free approach to learning.

Rotella is an author, essayist, and professor at Boston College. His discussion-based classes have two rules: everyone must participate, and no cellphones are allowed. In an interview with WSHU, Rotella said that the policy initially made them anxious. Students told him it was awkward and felt like public speaking.

“I think what soon happens is, because students, people in general, especially young people, are very adaptable, just switch to saying, 'Oh yeah, okay, that's my class where there's no devices,'” Rotella said. “That's the class where I get to be a human being doing the humanities, where I look people in the eye, where p

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