This year, I resolve to ban laptops from my classroom - Tal Gross, Columbia U

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  Joy Gracia

  I'm going with Tal Gross, Asst. Prof. at Univ of Columbia..because i think distraction is less while using pen and paper rather than laptops....In another way it is true that laptops not only affect the one with it but also the one behind...
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  Koushal Patel

  Though I am not a student, I want to say something on this. A teacher comes to the class with lots of preparation on a topic from number of books apart from "what are given the syllabus".
  If that person is so dedicated to share his/her knowledge, and eventually, if someone is not paying attention in the class room and deliberately doing something else (chatting among peers is common apart from net surfing and all that), obviously, It would feel bad for the teacher.
  I would like to appeal to those students, just replace your teacher with yourself and go to handle a class and address with a lecture of anything to fill the pressure of a teacher, and how it fells when someone does something exactly same as you.
  
  Please do not do like this!!
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  rahul69

  It really depends on the perspective. Not having Laptops in class will limit unwilling students from opening FB, twitter and all, but at the same time, students who are willing, their aid will be limited.
  If the students are interested in learning, technology always helps in quicker understanding, eg. a clip of Trigonal bi-pyramidal structured compound having some reaction is going to give quicker understanding than diagrams drawn on board. (I said quicker not better), So using tech-aids speeds up the process of learning, provided students are willing.
  Those students who have thirst for learning, for them Lectures without tech-aid are good, lectures with tech-aid are even better, but those who are less interested/weak willed, they will always run for excuses, You ban laptops, they'll carry smartphones.
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  Ankita Katdare

  Totally agree with #-Link-Snipped-# on this. When you have a pen and paper at hand, some people take notes, some doodle, some just stair at the horizontal lines and some use the paper to makes planes. It's really the perspective of the students that needs to change.