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Re: Laptop requirement?



Our board, in its infinite wisdom as mainly business
professionals, decreed all students will be required to have laptops a few
years back. They did this without consulting the faculty. They thought
the students and the faculty needed to be pushed into "modern methods of
teaching for the 21st century". The requiremnt has been ignored. Partly,
because the faculty recognized such a requirement as having limited
pedagogical value. And second, because most of our students arrive with
their own computers (mainly desktops) anyway. Our use of computers is
restricted to labs where they are used extensively for data acquisition
and analysis. We haven't had to teach much spreadsheet work as most of
the students are already proficient in using Excel, etc.

Mike Monce
Connecticut College