Professors vs. WiFi

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."

Comments

We should have standards on who can be profs

[HanzoSan]

How can they allow half blind deaf person to be a professor in college!!!!!

I dont mind disabled people working but certain people should not be teaching certain things,

It annoys the hell out of me when foriegn people try to teach programming languages or english and they cant talk right.

I wish there were some standards, currently anyone with a PHD can become professor, even if they cant talk, are legally blind, etc