U. of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access

Scott Jaschik writes "While some individual professors have banned laptops from classes at various colleges, the University of Chicago law school is going further, cutting off wireless and wired access in its classrooms to confront what officials see as out-of-control Web surfing. The story was first reported in the Above The Law 'legal tabloid' late last month. Students and the university's CIO question the strategy." Things will get interesting when Sprint WiMax service lights up in Chicago later this year.

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Re:Banning LAPTOPS?!

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I am completely unable to learn while taking notes. I abandoned the practice entirely several weeks into my first university semester.

If I attempt to take notes, I just enter a weird pass-through mode where information comes in via the ears and out via my hands, but not a drop of it will stick anywhere in between.

I suspect it's because I'm a visual learner, and when my visual attention is focused on a blank sheet of paper instead of on the person doing the lecturing, my learning ability is severely impaired.

Anybody else out there like this?