Im a sophomore at a large university and I always bring my laptop to class. Most of the time, when I'm on the computer, I'm not taking notes, no one is. Probably fifty percent of people have computers.
Several of my classes have random short papers to write in class, once or two a month. They are a decent part of your grade, so you don't want to miss more than one. That is the only reason I go to the class. I read the book and slides online and absorb the information there.... why I should I listen to it again in class? Like someone said in another post, there might be a few minutes of unredunant learning in an hour long class, I would fall asleep without a laptop. I do go to nearly all my classes, but I wouldn't without a computer.
You could be text messaging, sleeping, drawing, day dreaming, etc.... It has nothing to do with the medium you choose, it is just the fact that you choose not to pay attention. The way I see it, I am paying thousands to go to school there. If I fail, I get kicked out. Thus I don't fail, I keep a high GPA, as long as I don't cheat no matter how I get the grades is up to me. If you have the intelligence (or time to study) to not listen to the professor, then more power to you, get that A and do no work, why not?
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Im a sophomore at a large university and I always bring my laptop to class. Most of the time, when I'm on the computer, I'm not taking notes, no one is. Probably fifty percent of people have computers. Several of my classes have random short papers to write in class, once or two a month. They are a decent part of your grade, so you don't want to miss more than one. That is the only reason I go to the class. I read the book and slides online and absorb the information there .... why I should I listen to it again in class? Like someone said in another post, there might be a few minutes of unredunant learning in an hour long class, I would fall asleep without a laptop. I do go to nearly all my classes, but I wouldn't without a computer.
You could be text messaging, sleeping, drawing, day dreaming, etc. ... It has nothing to do with the medium you choose, it is just the fact that you choose not to pay attention. The way I see it, I am paying thousands to go to school there. If I fail, I get kicked out. Thus I don't fail, I keep a high GPA, as long as I don't cheat no matter how I get the grades is up to me. If you have the intelligence (or time to study) to not listen to the professor, then more power to you, get that A and do no work, why not?