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“Between laptops and fidgeting students, the classroom is quickly becoming one of the worst environments in which to learn.”

The first sentence of this University of Idaho student’s evisceration of the classroom laptop says it all. Technology has defeated the classroom. Online is the wave of the future; and the only question is what universities are going to do with those howling spaces all over campus.

Margaret Soltan, October 1, 2011 12:09AM
Posted in: technolust

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  1. A book is not a toy. « More or Less Bunk Says:

    […] because the effect will be the same.* This is the latest in a long line of horror stories that UD has dug up: In one class I decided to count how many different people were messing around on their laptops, or […]

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