Tip On Laptop Use In the Classroom

A professor at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently shared with me her tip for handling students who brought laptops to class but were using these to surf the web or play video games. Her policy? She told her students they were welcome to bring their laptops to take notes on and that the first two rows in the classroom were reserved for them only. She said the serious students were fine with the policy and that those who wanted to hide in the back playing video games decided not to bring theirs to class.