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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) by el_oscuro on Saturday November 25 2017, @05:33PM (1 child)
My California history teacher was worse. Each day, he would lecture and you had to take notes and turn them in.
His entire grade was based on how many pages of notes you took. 5 pages was an A, 4 pages was a B and so on. 5 pages of notes in 1 period is a lot of writing in a 45 minute period. I used wide rule and wrote a lot, got carpal tunnel from all the writing, and a good grade.
Of course I learned absolutely nothing about California history.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 26 2017, @12:26AM
Except for the "Each day" part we're talking about the same model.
...was worse
Yup.
I got the Patton quote above from a source that had interpolated the original. 8-(
The words he used were "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." --General George S. Patton
Trivia: Had modern seat belts been installed and in use in cars in 1945, [wikipedia.org] Patton would have lived past 60.
...but at that time, Ralph Nader was only 11 years old.
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