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A public discussion about laptops at Vassar.

After members of the faculty voiced concerns regarding laptop use in their classrooms, [the Committee on Academic Technology] took the admirable first step of consulting with the student body before considering formal regulatory action.

… Professors should make clear where they stand on personal electronic device use in their classrooms. The syllabi that are given to each student at the beginning of the semester would be the ideal medium for professors to express their individual policies…

As students and faculty become increasingly frustrated by rude and destructive classroom laptop use, more and more universities are holding these discussions, debating the relative merits of across-the-board bans and case-by-case choice on the part of professors.

Longtime UD readers know what UD has predicted: In time, students will be allowed – nay, encouraged – to use laptops only in radically PowerPointed classrooms. If you’re a professor who wants to be left alone to read slides aloud for fifty minutes twice a week, what’s not to like about laptops? They’re your salvation.

Margaret Soltan, December 3, 2010 11:18AM
Posted in: technolust

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