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[Real Reality]

More Professors Ban Laptops in Class
As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face. But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student actually was playing poker -- online, using the school's wireless Internet connection. The scenario is not uncommon in today's college classrooms, and some instructors want it stopped. So they have done the unthinkable -- banned laptops.... The ban led to "a lot of grumbling," Mooney said. Some students even dropped the class.

But as an experiment, the professor permitted laptops this past year to compare the difference in students' performance. His conclusion: Don't allow laptops.
By KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press via Yahoo!News (May 3, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_hi_te/colleges_no_laptops

[mindmetoo]

I used to do crossword puzzles from Games magazine in many classes. Ah the joys of knowing you only need a BA and you have zero plans on going to grad school. Another class I'd write for my comedy radio show instead of taking notes. I remember this one guy would always look over to see what he missed and it would take him a few seconds to figure out that, while I was writing furiously away, I wasn't writing about abnormal child psych. I was writing a skit about mountain men who start their own female hygiene company or something...

[Nowhere Man]

How about a nice mutual compromise:

The professor puts his lecture online, then uses classtime for something other than a lecture, like dialogue, Q&A, or discussion.

Woe to the one-trick-pony profs whose only teaching "technique" is the lecture.

Their days are numbered.