The law school is considering banning laptops in class. They sent an email out last week listing their points:
- in class laptop use encourages students to surf the web,
- students are failing to contribute to classroom discussion as a result of laptop use,
- laptops encourage students to become stenographers rather thoughtful note-takers,
- students surfing the web cause a distraction for other students.
- A no-laptop policy: a ban of laptop use (in-class)
- Honor Code Violation: any non-authorized laptop use will constitute an honor code violation; likewise, failure to report a fellow student’s non-authorized laptop use will also constitute an honor code violation
- Absence: professor may mark students absent for non-authorized laptop use
- Grade Deduction: professors may lower students grades for non-authorized laptop use
"If laptops are taken away, I'm going to bring my desktop."So, what do you think?
"How much money does the school collect each semester in tuition? Frankly, if I want to sleep through class and borrow an outline to prepare for the exam, I think I've paid for that right. And I will take responsibility for my grades."
"If the faculty and administration want to treat this "school" as a business, I fail to see why the students shouldn't respond in kind."
"[I]t all comes down to personal responsibility. The faculty and administration should focus on controlling the aspects of our legal curriculum that they control. They should leave the practice of being students up to the adults who happen to be their students."
3 comments:
Is it appropriate to use the pronoun "they" to refer to the law school?
I was so annoyed by those e-mails. If they're that worried, they should either mandate tablet PCs (so the screen is flat and profs don't have to worry about screens standing between them and their students)or just turn off the wireless in the classrooms.
On the point of "[l]aptops encourag[ing] students to become stenographers rather than thoughtful note-takers," I'm confused. Taking detailed notes that we take time to pare down later is...bad? Isn't that the definition of outlining? Paring away details?
Also, there's a great place I discovered to look for bad grammar:
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I like your style of writing. You break it down nicely. Very informative post. Keep up the good work.
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