>> Fred Atk>>> Sorry to come down on you this hard, but limiting student access to
>>> information simply because we think they don't 'need' access to it is
>>> a pretty short sighted opinion for an educator to take.
>> You're presuming that it's educators who are in favor of blocking
>> technology, but I think that's jumping to an unsupported conclusion.
> As both an educator and a student, I am, in fact, in favor of
> "blocking technology". The last thing I need is students distracted
> by more crap on their laptops while I'm lecturing -- and the last
> thing I need, as a student, is more distraction.
What does this have to do with technology being used in the appropriate place, like a library?
You don't want students doing other things when they're supposed to be listening to you. That's not particular to technology -- before IM, you'd have had to deal with kids passing paper notes between each other.
Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA
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