Recently Clay Shirky wrote an interesting essay about why he chose to tell his students to put their laptops away in class. This is interesting because Shirky is an associate professor at NYU with a joint appointment in the Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Journalism Department who has been teaching classes about the Internet since 1998. Shirky is clearly no Luddite. So why did he ban the use of laptops in the classroom?
“I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences…”
You’ll want to click the link to read the entire piece. It certainly is thought-provoking, even for a pro-technology teacher like me.
What is your policy and rationale for technology in the classroom?
Please post your comments below.
“I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences…”
You’ll want to click the link to read the entire piece. It certainly is thought-provoking, even for a pro-technology teacher like me.
What is your policy and rationale for technology in the classroom?
Please post your comments below.
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