Lectures vs. Laptops

[Nathan Newman]

It's Yale - and Ayres, since most of the teachers here kind of suck.  Ayres
has been on a rampage about this issue for months at the law school and
wants the faculty to ban laptops.  Although he's also noted that if the
faculty did this, the law students would have very good grounds for a
lawsuit against the law school, since all students were told to buy laptops
to use in class.

It's an interesting phenomena, since a large number of students all agree
that Yale faculty stink as teachers.  I've noticed that the group of
students who think they are good are overwhelmingly those who did undergrad
at Yale or Harvard.  I guess they never learned that a decent class is more
than a big name droning on about his or her pet obsessions.

-- Nathan Newman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Lectures vs. Laptops

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
>
>New York Times 20 March 2001
>
>Lectures vs. Laptops
>
>By IAN AYRES
>
>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.
>
>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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