Lectures vs. Laptops

[Justin Schwartz]

Well, there you are, more grist for my mill. You should gone to Ohio State, 
Nathan. The labor law person there (Jim Brudney) is fabulous, one of the 
smartest people I have met, and one of the best teachers I have ever had; 
the employment discrimination person (Camille Herbert) is only a fraction 
less awesome, if that. And they are not that unusual there: the faculty are 
brilliant people who actually care about teaching. There are some clinkers, 
but they're easy to avoid. So, _you_ will have a glitzy degree, but _I_  got 
a first-class legal education. Cheap, too. But maybe you got a scholarship. 
--jks (Ohio State Law booster)


>
>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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