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“Allowing students to have laptops is like placing beer in front of alcoholics.”

The author of a study of laptop use in upper-level law school courses summarizes his conclusions.

Margaret Soltan, April 20, 2011 9:38AM
Posted in: technolust

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2 Responses to ““Allowing students to have laptops is like placing beer in front of alcoholics.””

  1. bfa Says:

    I’ve come to conclusion that this is a not a battle we can win, or even want to win, because it’s going to make us look like luddites- and aren’t academics weird enough now?. 24/7 wifi access is here to stay. we need to find a way to incorporate it into our teaching, to keep them too busy to watch adorable videos of little penguins.

  2. dmf Says:

    @bfa,
    the speed and ease of use that generally characterize internet use are by and large contrary to the skills/experiences needed to learn something truly new and so for the learner un-handy, hard to grip. if people don’t learn to not just tolerate but to work through the uneasiness of not-knowing, not having ready access at one’s fingertips, than they will only be able to handle tasks where someone else has done the thinking/engineering before hand.
    if academics get sucked into trying to be part of the trendy in-crowd than they can offer no true alternatives to the They-say gossip world of common-sense.

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