http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060530-6941.html talks about banning laptops in the classroom. The laptop is blamed for causing the mind to wander. If my mind is going to wander, it will wander whether the laptop is there or not, although without the laptop to provide something "out there" to wander to, my mind usually wanders internally. I have a whole lifetime to wander to, and awareness isn't an all or nothing game. The trick is to arrange it so that when I need to put more resources towards what the teacher is doing, I do so.
It doesn't seem reasonable to be thrown out of a lecture just because every single momen
In http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/174096756/m/553002839731/r/767002839731#767002839731 fil says that the teacher has to have a reasonable degree of control over the environment, and then proceeds to make an assumption about what that reasonable degree of control is. Shurik after him points out, I believe correctly, the fact that a student is distracting himself with his laptop is not a problem. However, he jumps to the conclusion that the student is not willing to learn. I have received A's in classes where I was using the internet for non-classwork, during a lecture, and occaisonally could either track the lecture enough to participate a little or just ask the lecturer to repeat the question, at which point I could usually answer the question correctly.
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