Re: [Phys-l] laptops banned from class.

["Anthony Lapinski" <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>]

In my high school, I do many demos and activities. Students are also busy
writing that they miss half the things I say/do. So a few years ago I
began to give out my "lecture" notes to them. So they can just listen,
follow the lesson, and jot down a few things when necessary. They find the
handouts informative and very useful for test studying. It also helps a
kid who misses a day as I don't have to "reteach" what they missed.

Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu> writes:
> > Professor June Entman says her main concern is that students are so busy
> > keyboarding they can't think and analyze what she's telling them.
>
> Well, if that's the case, there is a simple solution, that is not 
> available with a classroom full of desktops. All she has to do is 
> have everyone close their computer lids when she wants them to pay 
> attention to her, and then when she gives them something to do that 
> requires that they use their computers, then just open them up again.
>
> This may be a problem enforcing if she is lecturing to a class of 
> several hundred, but in that case her school needs to radically 
> change the way they teach. Huge lecture classes, at least in science 
> are rapidly going out of style--it's hard to conduct an interactive 
> class when you are looking at a sea of faces, none of whose names you 
> even know.
>
> If you can control when the students get to look at their computers 
> and when they look at you, the computers can have a real value in 
> class.
>
> On the other hand, I remember a lot of classes in which I was so busy 
> writing notes I had no opportunity to think about what the professor 
> was saying. So I don't think her problem is anything new, the only 
> thing new is the technology--computers vs. pencils.
>
> Hugh
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