Lectures vs. Laptops

[Justin Schwartz]

Maybe it's Yale or maybe it's Ayres. No one would play solitarire during 
Doug Whaley's contracts class at Ohio State Law. He was great! --jks
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>New York Times 20 March 2001
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>Lectures vs. Laptops
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>By IAN AYRES
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>NEW HAVEN - Something alarming happened in my contract law class.  I
>asked that laptop computers be used only for note taking, and my
>students went ballistic.
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>Solitaire . . . .>
>Not all students do this sort of thing.  But the abusive use of
>laptops is getting to be increasingly prevalent.  Students toggle
>between windows during any part of the class they deem to be boring -
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