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Albany Law Professor Bans Laptops
In the recent edition of the Albany Law Magazine, Professor Nancy Ota shared her thoughts on the use of laptops in the classroom. Last semester, she experimented with banning laptops in her 1L...
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New Survey on Law School Students’ Thoughts on laptops…
The Chronicle of Higher Education just published a piece entitled “Survey Gets Law-School Students’ Thoughts on Laptops, Writing, and Ethics.” Click here for the complete article. Noteworthy from...
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Results of the Laptop Ban
There’s an an article in the ABA Journal online about faculty banning laptops in class. According to this article, law students reported a positive reaction to a no-laptop policy. One professor who...
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Video made by NYU Law students
“Please Repeat the Question!” This is very entertaining look at what students are doing in class on their laptops rather than paying attention- http://vimeo.com/3508179 . It was referred to me by a law...
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Survey reveals untapped potential for campus IT
Some of the results from the 2009 “Survey of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology,” from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (webbased survey of freshmen and seniors at 103...
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A Classroom Experiment
In the past year or so, many law schools have concluded that laptops and access to the Internet may have become a distraction or hindrance to student engagement in the classroom. Some law...
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Windows 7 – What does it mean for you?
How will using the new operating system add improved functionality to faculty computers and how can it impact their teaching? New Taskbar -If you hold the cursor over the icon of a running app on the...
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More on Laptops in the Law School Classroom
As the academic year draws to a close, I am scurrying to finish my classroom observations. In addition, to gathering data on technology use by professors, teaching styles, and student-faculty...
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Albany Law Faculty Workshop and CELT Series
Date: February 1, 2012 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Speaker: Kim Novak Morse, Associate Director of Writing Support Services, St. Louis University Topic: “Laptops, Law Students, and Course...
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1Ls Less Distracted by Laptops Than Upperclassmen
Another interesting article from the National Law Journal: Law school upperclassmen are far more likely than their first-year counterparts to spend classroom time checking Facebook, playing solitaire,...
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