Thursday, May 4, 2006

Professors banning in-class laptops

The Associated Press has picked up on a "trend" of <A HREF="http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/03/professors-banning-in-class-laptop-use/">professors banning laptops</A> in their classrooms. Unlike the Wi-Fi brouhaha, which revolved around fears that the wireless signals might be dangerous, keeping laptops out of the lecture hall is seen as a way of forcing students to pay attention. The AP article cites several law school professors who have enacted the ban, including one whose inspiration came while serving as an expert witness in a trial, when he realized the court stenographer wasn't absorbing any of the content that he/she was transcribing.

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