So having a laptop distracts you? Hard to believe. I thought multitasking made you a better worker?

That does it. I’m completely banning laptops from my lectures, unless I get a note from the folks on campus who deal with disabilities. From an interview with author Nicholas Carr in the Chronicle: There’s a study called “The Laptop and the Lecture” that divided a class into two sets. One-half of the students could use their laptops in a classroom while listening to a lecture. They were free to surf the Web. And the other half had to keep their l … Read More

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