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Why I Ban Laptops in My Classroom | Britannica Blog

Professor bans laptops from classroom for two reasons: notes are done better and are more engaging when written by hand, having to summarize, paraphrase, and prioritize; as opposed to verbatim which often occurs with the speed of typing on a laptop. There's not cognitive interaction. Two, is the distraction factor which is very real. This is not different than other distractions students have found in the past, daydreaming, drawing, writing notes, etc. this is a classroom management issue and leads more to engaging students with meaningful activities rather than lecture.

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- Note-taking on a laptop encourages verbatim transcription
- Laptops also create a temptation to the many other things one can do there — surf the Web, check e-mail, shop for shoes, play solitaire, or instant-message friends
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- - About 80 percent reported that they are more engaged in class discussion when they are laptop-free.
Why Web 2.0 Will Not be an Integral Part of K-12 Education: A Reply to Steve Hargadon | Britannica Blog

Author argues why teachers like Wesch and Hargadon are too optimistic about Web 2.0 revolutionizing education. His main argument revolves around Web 2.0's collaborative nature which is no different than project based teaching that has been around for years and shown marginal effectiveness. He notes that success relies upon teacher training and effective implementation of technology. This seems rather intuitive. Although in reality it is sad to note that, yes, many teachers will implement poor uses of technology and yield little success; but this is true for all teaching methods and should not scare us away from utilizing new and diverse tools and methods of teaching.

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- Most or all of these advantages accrue not from Web 2.0 in particular, but from its collaborative nature, and from the fact that students have a significant voice in selecting and shaping the project.
- As Hargadon notes, the advantages are “significantly enhanced, if not dependent on, devoted adults helping to mentor and guide students
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- - Direct instruction methods are easier to align with content standards, and they are easier to manage in the classroom.
  - the question is really whether Web 2.0 makes the student project more likely to succeed than project-based learning did before Web 2.0
Turned On, Plugged In, Online, & Dumb: Student Failure Despite the Techno Revolution | Britannica Blog

Despite widespread technology use in schools an abundance of free and easily accessed information, gen-y has shown decreasing literacy and writing skills, and poorer results on standardized tests, particularly with historical info and facts.

Author doesn't not argue, but notes improvements have been made where teachers were trained to integrate technology into instruction.

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- Students cannot “create prose that is precise, engaging, and coherent,” it said, which means that “they cannot write well enough to meet the demands they face in higher education and the emerging work environment.” Indeed, other reports by the Commission estimated that poor workplace writing costs corporate America $3.1 billion per year and state governments $250 million per year.
- Students with at least weekly computer instruction by well-prepared teachers do not perform any better on the NAEP reading test than do students who have less or no computer instruction.”
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- - n 2004, economists at the University of Munich analyzed international test scores (including the U.S.) and determined, “computer availability at home shows a strong statistically negative relationship to math and reading performance, and computer availability at school is unrelated to performance.” (Emphasis added.)
  - The percentage of those in the state reaching proficiency on the state test went from 29.1% to 41.4%, an astonishing gain. In the intervening years, too, every Maine middle-schooler was given a laptop, and teachers were trained to integrate technology into their instruction. Hence, the Globe headline: “Middle school laptop program leads to writing improvements.”
The Laptops Are Coming! The Laptops Are Coming! - Volume 22 No. 4 - Summer 2008 - Rethinking Schools Online

Teacher expresses concerns after implementing one-to-one laptops in her classroom

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- Disconnecting
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- - Monitoring or Teaching?
  - Creating Meaning from Information
  - Tech Discomfort
  - The laptops have also meant a text-laden day for students. Over 68 first languages are spoken in my small district; I work with a number of ELL students. When we first received the laptops, my excited colleagues and I created numerous assignments that emphasized the internet and text-based discussions online, rather than in-class dialogue. While this offered quieter students more time to respond, it frustrated those who struggled with reading or students just learning English who needed to hear the spoken word and have a chance to "wrap their mouths around the words," as one friend put it.
  - he laptop has also offered a "sanctioned" place for introverted adolescents to hide. In a fascinating discussion with my 6th period last May, I found that the majority of my ELL students did not think the district should keep the laptops. In a rousing speech, which culminated in thunderous applause from many of his peers, Hyung proclaimed, "The laptops are a waste of money and distract students from their school work." At the start of the year, many of these same students wrote of feeling isolated as "outsiders" at school. By late spring, many ELL students believed that the laptops accentuated this distance for them. Many students at my school simply speak to each other less now.

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Matthew Daniel's List: Negative Impact

Why I Ban Laptops in My Classroom | Britannica Blog

Why Web 2.0 Will Not be an Integral Part of K-12 Education: A Reply to Steve Hargadon | Britannica Blog

Turned On, Plugged In, Online, & Dumb: Student Failure Despite the Techno Revolution | Britannica Blog

The Laptops Are Coming! The Laptops Are Coming! - Volume 22 No. 4 - Summer 2008 - Rethinking Schools Online

No Time to Think

Monitoring or Teaching?

Creating Meaning from Information

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