Sophomore Corey Jacobson argues that banning laptops is not a solution for the larger problem of teacher engagement.
I’ll never forget the first piece of gum I chewed in high school. For the first time in my education, school policy allowed me to chew gum in the middle of my Spanish class without getting a detention. Since that day of liberation, I have entered college and gained even more freedoms in the classroom, not the least of which is the ability to use my laptop.
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Nicely written, Core. Couldn’t agree more; I would actually take notes during lectures if I could type them instead of handwriting them. Because it’s so slow, I often miss far more by trying to write down information at a third of the speed that teachers talk about them.
Corey Jacobson fails to point out that how boring a professor seems to one student is completely subjective. If students like Jacobson need the “constant stimulation” from electronic devices that they feel the lecture lacks, maybe they should skip class to avoid amusing themselves at the expense of others. While Jacobson and students like him are busy asserting their “freedom” by browsing through flickering Facebook pictures and scrolling through Wikipedia, students around him who otherwise may have felt engaged get distracted and suffer.