A law professor at Pace University noticed that the students he observed in a colleague’s classroom all took notes when the professor was speaking, but the rest of the time, when students were commenting, for example, they used their laptops to shop or check on Facebook. He then decided to ban all laptops in his own classroom. What he discovered was that when students were without laptops they interacted with each other. The discussions were livelier and hopefully more interesting. He explains in his NYT article that (more…)
January 2017
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Happy New Year!
“Non nobis solum nati sunum.” (We are not born for ourselves Alone.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.If they decide to turn their back and burn their behind, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
Abraham Lincoln