Professor Cara Finnegan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) shares her policy on texting or using computers to email or surf during class as well as her reasons for this.
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Thanks for sharing Cara's policy. I contacted her and asked for permission to re-post her policy on my site . . . she agreed. Turns out she and I teach similar classes at different universities. Small world!
Posted by: Barbara Nixon | August 15, 2008 at 03:54 PM
I like her use of the term "divided attention". Her explanation is a bit long, so I'll work on a condensed version, based on her last section: "If you aren’t using it to perform a task specifically related to what we are doing in class at that very moment, put it away."
Posted by: billso | August 17, 2008 at 01:45 AM
Bill, Condensed would be better as our students have a short attention span! Would you be willing to share your version?
Posted by: Delaney Kirk | August 17, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Barbara, I have found out that academia is a very small world!
Posted by: Delaney Kirk | August 17, 2008 at 01:00 PM
I'll post my condensed version to my blog at http://billso.com this week... I agree that shorter is better. That gives students less opportunity to negotiate or waffle.
Posted by: billso | August 17, 2008 at 03:34 PM
These kind of controls seems to be pretty unnecessary don't you think ? our students needs more freedom to work.
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