Students increasingly support banning laptops from classrooms. Multifunction screens fragment attention and block learning.
3mon 11d ago by feddit.uk/u/NomNom in academia@mander.xyz from www.thecrimson.com
Yea, I took notes with pen and paper. You can pry my laptop from my cold dead hands.
Sounds like the problem is too many students packed in a room
Counterpoint: If a student doesn't learn to cope with the distraction of having a laptop, they won't be prepared for work environments they'll be dumped into after school.
yes they will. Humans are incredible at adapting.
A person learns better with pencil paper and textbooks. The younger the student is, the more this is true.
It's astonishing that you wrote the counter to your own argument within your argument.
Source: whatever?
Honestly, I had a laptop/convertible tablet throughout my studies, and I definitely would not have wanted to be without it. I could draw directly onto the slides, type if necessary (I can type faster than I can write), and I always knew that if I had that thing along, I had everything I needed - no worrying about which binders to bring along and no breaking my back with heavy backpacks.
And when I did get distracted, it usually wasn't from my computer, but from my phone. Which wasn't always bad, sometimes it was good to keep myself awake - I'd rather be semi distracted but still semi paying attention than fallen asleep.
So tired of people playing games on their laptops in my college courses. I think their should be exceptions for accessibility, but I think 90% of the time its better off for everyone to just use a binder
Ah yes, because everyone is like you.
or using social media.
As someone who was too deaf to hear one professor even when sitting in the front row bc of the acoustics in that room, if there had been a way to read the lecture I would have taken it. That can be done with a printed copy tho, no need for a laptop
If I’d had a laptop in my classroom there’s no way I’d be paying attention to the lecturer.