Professor Bans Laptops from the Classroom

An anonymous reader writes "USAToday is reporting that students are up in arms over a University of Memphis Professor who has decided to ban laptops from her classroom. Earlier this month Professor Entman sent an email warning to her students to bring paper and pens to take notes and leave the laptops at home. From the article: '"My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing," Entman said Monday. "The computers interfere with making eye contact. You've got this picket fence between you and the students."'"

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Re:I Wouldn't Call Her a Luddite

[Compenguin]

If the professor cannot be bothered to impart the information in such a way as to make his students learn it as well as possible, then perhaps he should find another job. He is, after all, a teacher being paid to teach, not a wise man imparting his pearls of wisdom in the form of incomprehensible riddels out of the goodness of his heart.

Actually he's paid to do research and asked to teach on the side.