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Professors have started banning laptops in lecture halls -- (link)

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Mar 10 '10, 08:13

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030804915.html (www.washingtonpost.com)

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- We managed to do it in the days before laptops were common. - pmb Mar 10, 08:26 2
  - I managed to live without a cell phone for 30 years, but since they're here, why should I have to? -- nm - loosilu Mar 10, 08:28 1
    - That doesn't argue that cell phones are appropriate and helpful in all situations. - pmb Mar 10, 08:36
- The article mentions that you essential are a stenographer at that point, typing madly without comprehending. Wouldn't recording the lecture be more - oblique Mar 10, 08:24 1
  - people who take bad notes will do it with a pen or a laptop. -- nm - loosilu Mar 10, 08:26
I don't care how old fuddy-duddy it makes me. I refuse to disagree with this. -- nm - TFox Mar 10, 08:20 2
- i feel the same way. -- nm - Andie Mar 10, 08:21 1
  - I don't get to bring my laptop to all of my meetings at work, and I'd be looked at slanty-eyed if I did. - TFox Mar 10, 08:23
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Luddites. -- nm - loosilu Mar 10, 08:14

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