They can’t justify it. But they can allow the poor professor to ban laptops and other devices. That would help immensely.
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Colin, a UD reader, reminds UD that the author of the article I’ve linked to was at a tender age diagnosed with “Written Output Disorder,” a condition which made it mandatory that he use laptops in all classrooms. Colin questions the diagnosis, so UD looked it up.
I’m afraid the author of the article is being a bit irresponsible. There are, first of all, at least five kinds of WOD (aka Dysgraphia), and the author would have been more persuasive had he specified his particular subdisorder, since not all seem to necessitate giving up the act of writing with your hands.
Further, experts seem to agree that therapies for all forms of this disorder exist, which suggests that the author’s parents were a mite overhasty when they decided to allow their son – at the age of ten – to abandon the effort to make his fingers form letters.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:40AM
“Written Output Disorder”? Diagnosed in the fourth grade?
January 11th, 2012 at 8:47AM
Colin: I know! I can’t believe I didn’t feature that in the post! Thanks for the reminder. I’ll rewrite …
January 11th, 2012 at 12:39PM
Written output disorder, it’s just as much of a joke as its sibling, discalculia.
January 12th, 2012 at 4:27PM
I have had whole classrooms full of students with Written Output Disorder AND Disordered Written Output Disorder and quite a few with Absolutely No Written Output At All Disorder
January 12th, 2012 at 4:47PM
tp: LOL. Extended LOL.