Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting
My experience is that the bad professors are almost always the ones to ban laptops. Students pay attention to engaging professors and use their laptops for notes, and those good professors aren&#x27;t phased by the laptops and rarely ban them.<p>But When students listen out of one ear and spend the rest of the class processing email, it&#x27;s almost always an indication that the lecture is poor. That&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve seen over and over in 7 years of post secondary classes. I don&#x27;t know much about the professor in the article, but I would suspect improving his lectures will be more effective in helping students learn than banning laptops.