[Phys-L] Re: suudent problems wireless in class

[rtarara at SAINTMARYS.EDU (Rick Tarara)]

However....the next generation of laptops will be TABLET computers (already
available) which WILL make eminent sense as note taking devices (you can
write and draw to the screen with a stylus and save each 'page').
Unfortunately, you can also do all the other unwanted activities as well!

Rick

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Haskell" <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>
> >
> Actually that gives the laptops a bit of an advantage in a
> computerized classroom. If they have monitors in front of them, they
> can hide behind them and there isn't much the teacher can do, but
> with laptops, you can make them close the lids and keep track of the
> status of the lids easily. So having laptops can be an advantage. It
> gets harder, though, if they are taking class notes on their laptop.
> I rather think that that is not the best way to take notes in a
> science class, though (hard to do pictures and equations quickly on a
> computer), so students shouldn't be using their laptops for that,
> anyway.
>
> Hugh