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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."'"
Wow.. expert huh? I've had so many teachers in University that were NOT experts in their field...
Wake me up when students realize they have it easy compared to people in the real world.
I'd kill to have a college schedule again.
Like omfg!111!!!
Anyway really profs have been doing this since students started bringing them to class in the first place. Heck I remember back in my 1st year, Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) was one the the first to entirely wire there campus, every chair in every lecture hall had an ethernet port, and every 1st year student was issued a IBM thinkpad as part of their package (yes they had some of the highest tution in the country for undergrad)... This started two spin offs. 1)Wanna laptop, just go steal one, drunk students don't lock their doors anyway, and 2)Profs started getting their collective panties in a bunch and banning the laptops (The university Admin loved this, totally wired, but not allowed!).... as students weren't as in TFA taking notes and not thinking, but rather checking e-mail, IM chatting, hell playing LAN games, normal games, and everything but hearing what said prof had to say... not to mention the infernal clickity clack of keyboards while they were trying to speak.... that was back in '95..... Mmmm carry the one.... OVER A DECADE AGO! Yes this sure is news to be posted to a news service on the "cutting edge" of technology etc... Anyway kinda funny...
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