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Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 93, Clicks: 13)  View Story

A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction.

1 comments | Tags: laptop computer wireless internet connections internet-ready cellphones | Topic: In the Class BAD >_<

#1 by nitajo posted ago +3 apples bad good
Professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, among many others. Last month, a physics professor at the University of Oklahoma poured liquid nitrogen onto a laptop and then shattered it on the floor, a warning to the digitally distracted. A student -- of course -- managed to capture the staged theatrics on video and drew a million hits on YouTube.

Professor Makes Example of Laptop with Liquid Nitrogen -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ya1dUA5-GM
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