[T]here is a way to appease both sides here. Some schools have classrooms where the Internet connection in the entire room can be turned on or off with the flip of a switch. This is a great way to compromise between professors and students. Students can bring their laptops so they can type up notes, but they are unable to get online unless the professor decides it would be beneficial to the class.
A student at UD‘s George Washington University makes a good case against classroom laptops. She offers the above as a solution, but UD could swear she read somewhere (she can’t find it now) that there are many ways for students to disable the off switch.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:28PM
And it doesn’t turn off Minesweeper or Solitaire.
Nor does it stop the distracting clickety-clack of typing.