While laptops and smartphones can help enhance the educational experience, far more of them are being used inappropriately during class.
Walk into any classroom where teachers permit the use of laptops and you’ll find a sea of different screenshots not pertaining to the classwork. Students often take advantage of this technological triumph by browsing websites like Facebook, YouTube and even play full-fledged games like Minecraft.
Some students who bother to take notes with their laptop only does so when the slide changes or the professor writes something on the chalkboard. Even then, they often return to whatever distraction was previously holding their attention.
Texting is especially rampant during college classes, which shows a clear disrespect for both the professor and the material the professor is trying to teach them, as well as students around them who are there to learn without unnecessary distractions.
March 6th, 2012 at 4:31PM
So what happens 20 years from now, when today’s kids are tomorrow’s national leaders?
Also, I cannot imagine any course worth attending that doesn’t demand near continuous note taking (and much more in the way of outside-the-classroom study time).