Search the Lounge

Categories

« Books and a Literary Address in an Antebellum Novel | Main | For Those Who Hate Daylight Savings ... »

March 15, 2010

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Eric Muller

Until I'm required by an official school policy to ban laptops in my classes, I won't do it. Way too paternalistic for my tastes.

Admittedly, sometimes I have to take away my daughters' iPod Touches and cellphones so that they'll get their homework done. But they're 13 and 15. And they're my children.

Howard Wasserman

I am a proud supporter of laptop-in-the-classroom bans teaching at a school that does require students to purchase laptops. I explain the seeming dichotomy as follows: Computers (particularly laptops) have been a boon for everything we in law school (and in law generally), thus it is a good idea for students to have them--they can come to school to study, write, research, etc., but anywhere in the building. The one area of law school in which this is not true is classroom notetaking, largely because of the tendency towards stenography and disengagement that it creates.

The comments to this entry are closed.

StatCounter

  • StatCounter
Blog powered by Typepad