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01 Mar 11
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The reason? More and more professors are banning them from the classroom. Laptops, they say, turn students into stenographers instead of critical thinkers, or, more often, distract them with online shopping or e-mail. These are the same laptops, mind you, that many schools required students to buy in the first place, and they connect wirelessly to a network that universities have spent millions to install. Technology fees and tuition hikes are hard to swallow for students taking notes with a pencil.
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01 Dec 10
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Computers can transform the way students learn only if instructors change the way they teach.
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Teachers must step down from being the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side. That change hurts for those of us who love the limelight, but it hurts less than losing out to Minesweeper.
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Students are working individually or in small teams to solve engaging problems or answer compelling questions. They are synthesizing their own experience, ideas from the professor, and sources that they can find on the Web. They are talking with classmates, but they are also collaborating with people outside the classroom walls by e-mailing experts, posting to blogs, or editing pages on wikis (websites that allow users to add, remove, or edit content). The teacher has come down from the lectern and is moving throughout the room, watching what students are doing, asking questions, posing challenges, and brushing shoulders with the student who just checked the scores on ESPN.com.
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They share their insights, their solutions, and their obstacles. The Socratic exchange is fueled by the insights developed through electronic inquiry. The powerful face-to-face questioning isn't competing with the laptops; instead, it depends on it. When the dialogue ends, the teacher encourages students to reopen their notebook computers and summarize the important points of the conversation. Sometimes the instructor is delivering content, but more often the teacher is helping students learn how to learn.
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In the long run, though, the strongest educational institutions won't be the ones that leave laptops out; they will be those that discover the most powerful ways to bring them in.
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16 Nov 10
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The reason? More and more professors are banning them from the classroom. Laptops, they say, turn students into stenographers instead of critical thinkers, or, more often, distract them with online shopping or e-mail. These are the same laptops, mind you, that many schools required students to buy in the first place, and they connect wirelessly to a network that universities have spent millions to install.
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Computers can transform the way students learn only if instructors change the way they teach.
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. It's ironic that law school professors are leading the laptop backlash, since their discipline saw this trend coming decades ago when they stopped trying to teach the law and focused instead on teaching legal reasoning.
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14 Jan 10
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18 Dec 09
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Admitting laptops into the classroom means facing the reality that in the competition for attention, our best lectures can't even beat solitaire
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Students no longer need us for the facts because facts are instantly available on the Internet. Instead, they need us to help them figure out what to do with all that data.
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Teachers must step down from being the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side
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solve engaging problems
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They are synthesizing their own experience, ideas from the professor, and sources that they can find on the Web
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e-mailing experts, posting to blogs, or editing pages on wikis
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The Socratic exchange
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The powerful face-to-face questioning isn't competing with the laptops; instead, it depends on it.
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Sometimes the instructor is delivering content, but more often the teacher is helping students learn how to learn.
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05 Sep 07
Andy MannTeachers: Step down as the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side.
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25 Jul 07
Diane SwanTeachers: Step down as the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side.
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25 May 07
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23 May 07
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18 May 07
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17 May 07
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15 May 07
Kerri RichardsonTeachers: Step down as the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side.
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