I once had a student in CHEM 100 who brought a laptop to class and sat in the second row every day. I thought he was diligent. Then one day, the girls who sat in the row behind him came up to me after class to complain that he was using his laptop camera to “spy” on them during class. It was pretty creepy and the end of laptops in that lecture. -Kelly Gallagher From: "Christie, Charlene" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:36:51 +0000 To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Laptops in Class? After reading some recent research on the topic, I have started discouraging students from using devices to take notes. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/take-notes-by-hand-for-better-long-term-comprehension.html Charlene Christie, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology SUNY College at Oneonta 161A Fitzelle Hall Oneonta, NY 13820 607.436.3226 http://christie.socialpsychology.org/ From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Withington, Jennifer Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 1:22 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Laptops in Class? I have had many students tell me that they type faster than they can write and really need to use their laptop; so I do not like to ban them. However, in some classes I have had to ask the laptop users to sit along the sides or across the back of the classroom. I find that the students behind the users are as much or more distracted than the users themselves. Moving the screens to locations where there are fewer people behind them to be distracted helped a great deal. Dr. Jennifer Withington Asst. Professor of Biology SUNY Oneonta 116 Science I Oneonta, NY 13820 607-436-3421 From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dean, Carol Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 1:05 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Laptops in Class? This is funny in light of the conference I just attended on the weekend. The theme was technology integration in the classroom. During the keynote, the speaker said "I will bet a full year's salary that at least one of you in the audience has either checked your email or FB during my presentation." A whole bunch of hands went up. Her point, "You do it, and so will your students. So take advantage of the device, and use it as part of your instruction." Today, I used Poll Everywhere in my FREN101 class. It was lots of fun. Carol Carol S. Dean, Ed.D. Associate Professor, Secondary Education NCATE Coordinator, School of Education & Human Ecology 607-436-3189 From: <Wilkerson>, Bill <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:35 AM To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Laptops in Class? This is good stuff and right on point. I realized the other day that I was wondering what a couple of students were doing with their laptops in class and distracting myself. It isn’t just students, it potentially distracts us as well. I have to say I am still torn about how to handle this. I am curious how colleagues handle laptops and tablets in class. Bill On Sep 24, 2014, at 6:17 AM, Greenberg, Jim <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: TBers, I saw this on Metafilter this morning and thought some might be interested. The comments are worth a skim as well. Screens generate distraction - biologically impossible to resist - in a manner akin to second-hand smoke.Allowing laptop use in class is like allowing boombox use in class - it lets each person choose whether to degrade the experience of those around them.<https://medium.com/@cshirky/why-i-just-asked-my-students-to-put-their-laptops-away-7f5f7c50f368> [CITATION PROVIDED]<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131512002254?np=y> I've stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is their own propensity towards involuntary and emotional reaction. posted by paleyellowwithorange<http://www.metafilter.com/user/80984> at 3:32 PM - 78 comments<http://www.metafilter.com/143006/Why-I-Just-Asked-My-Students-To-Put-Their-Laptops-Away-> Jim G. 607-436-2701 Director TLTC SUNY Oneonta