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Step into any college lecture hall and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops as the professor speaks. But you won't see that when I'm teaching.
Though I make a few exceptions, I generally ban electronics, including laptops, in my classes and research seminars.
That may seem extreme. After all, with laptops, students can, in some ways, absorb more from lectures than they can with just paper and pen. They can download course readings, look up unfamiliar concepts on the fly and create an accurate, well-organized record of the lecture material. All of that is good.
But a growing body of evidence shows that over all, college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. They also tend to earn worse grades. The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them. It's not much of a leap to expect that electronics also undermine learning in high school classrooms or that they hurt productivity in meetings in all kinds of workplaces.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @12:19PM (1 child)
I passed. I got marked down, however, because my gait didn't match his my-way-or-the-highway rigidity.
Intelligent instructors don't do that kind of stupid shit.
"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." --Lt.General George S. Patton Jr.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 25 2017, @01:55PM
Except, Patton was talking about mature people, with education and training behind them. Patton wasn't addressing high school kids with neither.