{"id":241,"date":"2010-03-15t06:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-15t06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/?p=241"},"modified":"2010-10-11t13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11t18:36:15","slug":"laptops-in-the-classroom-to-ban-or-encourage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/03\/laptops-in-the-classroom-to-ban-or-encourage\/","title":{"rendered":"laptops in the classroom \u2013 to ban or encourage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"macbook x-ray\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3197\/3025109312_9eba5237c8_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" \/>the <em>washington post<\/em> published a widely cited article last week titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/08\/ar2010030804915.html?hpid=topnews\">wide web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls<\/a>&#8221; concerning the banning of student laptops during classes at several universities.\u00a0 some instructors find that students are too easily distracted by their laptops and feel that banning the devices helps students stay attentive during class.\u00a0 others see it as the instructor&#8217;s job to hold students&#8217; attention during class.\u00a0 as harvard physics professor eric mazur said in a recent ap story on classroom response systems, &#8220;the teacher just has to be more interesting than youtube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>an instructor&#8217;s decision about laptops in the classroom is clearly a hot topic.\u00a0 more that 250 comments have been made on the story on the <em>post <\/em>web site, and the story has generated interesting discussions on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/technology_and_learning\/laptop_bans_are_a_terrible_idea\">an <em>inside higher ed<\/em> post by joshua kim<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/edwired.org\/?p=587\">a blog post by mills kelly<\/a>, george mason university historian.<\/p>\n<p>the cft has explored this question in our podcast series twice, in <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2008\/02\/episode-4-an-interview-with-duco-jansen\/\">episode 4<\/a> in an interview with duco jansen (biomedical engineering) and in <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2008\/06\/episode-7-teaching-in-a-digital-age\/\">episode 7<\/a> featuring remarks by patricia armstrong (french), matt hall (its), and jay clayton (english).\u00a0 also, cft educational technologist rhett mcdaniel has written <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/teaching-guides\/technology\/wireless\/\">a teaching guide on the topic of wireless internet use in the classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>what pros and cons do you see in banning or encouraging student laptop use during class?<\/p>\n<p><em>image: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jasondv\/3025109312\/\">macbook x-ray<\/a>&#8221; by\u00a0 flickr user jasondevilla \/ creative commons licensed<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the washington post published a widely cited article last week titled &#8220;wide web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls&#8221; concerning the banning of student laptops during classes at several universities.\u00a0 some instructors find that students are too easily distracted by their laptops and feel that banning the devices helps students stay attentive during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[90],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}