Once again, the debate on whether law professors should
ban laptops in class, which I discussed here a year ago, has returned to the blogosphere, precipitated by this opinion piece in the Washington Post by Georgetown law professor David Cole.
Microsoft makes the bold claim that the LTE Advanced modem used in the Surface Pro makes it «the fastest LTE -
enabled laptop in its class.»
Kenneth Swift of the University of Houston Law Center notes that, in teaching legal research and writing, his students make extensive use
of laptops in class, but he, too, controls device use by having an absolute ban on mobile phone use.
Other than the ZenBook Flip S, Asus launched the ZenBook Pro, which is believed to be the «thinnest», «lightest» and most powerful «professional - grade»
ultraportable laptop in its class.
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Banning Laptops in Class: from The Volokh Conspiracy Georgetown law professor David Cole explains why he banned laptops from this class: Some years back, our l...
In a 2010 study, James Kraushaar and David Novak found that students
using laptops in class had non-course-related software open and active 42 percent of the time, and a 2008 study by Carrie Fried found that students report increased multitasking when laptops are in the classroom.
You have me drooling all over
my laptop in class right now... I'm such a sucker for pancakes, so that's definitely my favorite weekend breakfast.
Using digital curricula effectively is much more complicated than just firing up
a laptop in class.
More than one has told me that course - packs allow them to keep students from opening
their laptops in class.
Everybody uses
a laptop in class and many of your classmates will constantly stream their thoughts during class.
The only question is what are they doing with
their laptops in class; --RRB-
The numbers are still substantial, but outside the faculty of law the numbers are somewhere closer to 40 - 55 % using
their laptops in class.
Most of the discussion has centered on whether students who use
laptops in class are distracted from the learning process by e-mail or online surfing.
I believe that the trick is to seize control of their desktop by taking advantage of the possibilities of delivering information to the students via
their laptop in the class.
It's a 15 - inch laptop with NVIDIA 10 - series graphics, a svelte all metal chassis and a pretty attractive price tag for
a laptop in this class.