Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Laptops, Classrooms, and Matters of Electrate Concern

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Alex Reid points to the obvious counterexample to studies claiming that students in classes with laptops do worse than students in classes without: "t someone might conduct a different study wherein the students who brought laptops to class were also allowed to use them during the multiple-choice final." Yes, that might have a different result. But more to the point: "None of us, students and faculty included, have really figured out how to live, learn, and work in the emerging digital media-cognitive ecology," he writes. "So it is certainly true that we can struggle to accomplish various purposes with technologies pulling us in different directions."

Today: 0 Total: 13 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website
View full size


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Dec 22, 2024 11:17 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes