Professors vs. WiFi

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 2, 2003 @01:13AM from the culture-jamming dept.

murky.waters writes "The New York Times (free registration, profiling) has an article about the opposing views of teacher's demanding attention and students seeking distraction; the current trend toward wireless Internet access in the classroom has students surfing the web and checking their email from the backrow, while instructors are climbing up the ladder... to disconnect the Access Point." Makarand writes "University Wi-Fi networks are heavily impacting student campus life according to this article on NewsObserver.com. In addition to allowing them to keep working while not in their computer labs, the wireless networks allow them to keep in touch with their family, better organize time, complete coursework in shorter periods of time, collaborate with other students and bring computing power into classrooms not available before."

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Wireless networks are by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-02 01:20 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Pure toys, and not conducive to learning.
Re:The teacher passes responsiblity to student by Alan+Partridge · 2003-01-02 01:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Congratulations!

You are THE biggest prick to have posted on /. today. As a reward, take the rest of the week off.

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That was classic intercourse!
Re:The teacher passes responsiblity to student by gpinzone · 2003-01-02 02:27 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Apparently, you've never attended a technical college...or your own accent is so thick, I'd need a chainsaw to cut it.

Perhaps you are the racist.
Overated! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-02 09:10 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I guess the moderator didn't agree with the comment. But couldnt lable it a Troll for Flamebate. Perhaps they should have a moderation called Unpopular. when a message is posted at Score 2. It dosent nessarly mean that the poster was already modded up. So it had no rating on it. Why dont you save your moderation point in helping people move up. Save those -1 for real flamebates and trools and overated on those 4s and 5s that dont really need it. Please be responsible as a moderator and try to mod up!