No laptops in class
I personally find it kind of foolish to prevent students to use their laptops in class. If it’s to prevent disturbances, prevention of the use of laptops will not force students to pay attention. If anything, they will waste more time being bored and zoning in and out.
It’s the job of the section leader to make the class interesting and keep the student’s attention. The laptop is a tool to enhance learning.
I’m pretty peeved that I cannot use my laptop in one of my sections. It isn’t that I will die without my laptop, but rather than having to waste paper and pen writing out notes and then eventually typing it out again on my laptop, I can just save everything on my laptop and review there. It saves time, paper, and ink.
On a side note, I am happy with my decision to pursue neurobiology rather than psychology.
3 Responses to “No laptops in class”
Wow. No laptops? That would be the death of me… (Well, not really, but you get my point.) On the other hand, I’ve been taking my notes down with just a pen and notebook. I don’t even bother to retype things anymore. I found that I’m much more focused without my laptop nowadays.
By the way, what’s wrong with psychology? I wish I could take neurobiology, though. I’m not even sure if they offer it here.
To me, psychology is very behavioral. Neurobiology looks at the molecular aspects of things, and it takes the brain apart into something that seems almost magical…like how our body can function so well with all the substances being passed around normally. I’m more interested in looking at this molecular phenomenon.
I agree. also think that’s a stupid decision. I always used my laptop at university, simply because I can type faster than I can write!
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