Lazy Generation protests against ban on laptops for note taking.
Professor June Entman warned her first-year law students by e-mail to bring pens and paper to take notes in class and that laptops would not be allowed.
From USAToday:
“My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing,” Entman said Monday. “The computers interfere with making eye contact. You’ve got this picket fence between you and the students.”
The students have petitioned on the grounds that handwritten notes are inferior.
Yet another sad consequence of technology and our growing dependence on it.
How will these students cope if and when they find themselves in situations they must follow someone else’s rules?
Do these students think that without taking notes electronically, they cannot be as good a lawyers as the brilliant lawyers of previous generations, who never had computers for taking notes?
These kids are a bunch of lazy self-centered sooks who need to learn some new skills - especially it seems, that of taking handwritten notes, and that of being flexible and open to doing things differently.
(BTW: Sook is slang for a person who cries in a whingey way)
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