Banning Laptops in the Classroom: Is it Worth the Hassles?
Banning Laptops in the Classroom: Is it Worth the Hassles?
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禁止在教室里使用笔记本电脑：值得这么麻烦吗？
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2007
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Kevin Yamamoto
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在过去的几年里，法学院的教室里出现了学生笔记本电脑的爆炸性使用。法学教授们默认地允许这样做，通常是在笔记本电脑让做笔记更容易的借口下。然而，许多教授抱怨说，学生们在课堂上用笔记本电脑玩游戏、看电影，或者如果他们有互联网连接，就用来上网和发电子邮件。这篇论文介绍了我在2006年秋天禁止笔记本电脑进入我的教室的经历，这是我所在的机构第一次这样做。这篇文章涵盖了允许和反对笔记本电脑进入教室的原因，我禁止笔记本电脑的理由和程序，课堂体验中的感知差异，以及我的课程评估中相关的学生评论，这些评论对笔记本电脑禁令具有压倒性的积极意义。此外，还讨论了支持禁止使用笔记本电脑的认知心理原因。研究表明，较低的成绩与学生在课堂上浏览网页的增加有关(Grace-Martin&Gay，2001；hembrooke&Gay，2003)，以及学生使用笔记本电脑完成课堂笔记以外的任务的时间(Fry，2007)。对大脑的核磁共振研究表明，当学生试图在课堂上同时处理多项任务时，大脑在分心时会以不同的方式存储信息(Foerde，Knowlton，&Poldrack，2006)。笔记科学也被包括在内，这表明逐字打字可能会干扰学习(例如，Kiewra，1991)。论文最后敦促法学院教授回顾为什么允许在课堂上使用笔记本电脑，除非他们认为笔记本电脑有助于学生学习，否则就禁止或严格限制他们在课堂上使用笔记本电脑。
Over the last several years law school classrooms have seen an explosion of student laptop use. Law professors have allowed this by default, generally under the pretense that laptops make note-taking easier. However, many professors complain that students use their laptops to play games, watch movies, or if they have an Internet connection, to do web surfing and e-mailing during class. This paper presents my experience in banning laptops from my classroom in the Fall of 2006, the first time it was done at my institution. The article covers the reasons for and against allowing laptops in the classroom, my reasoning and procedure for banning them, perceived differences in the classroom experience and relevant student comments from my course evaluations, which were overwhelmingly positive to the laptop ban. Also covered are the cognitive psychological reasons in support of banning laptops. Studies show that lower grades were correlated with increased student web browsing during class (Grace-Martin & Gay, 2001; Hembrooke & Gay, 2003), and the amount of time which students used their laptops for tasks other than taking lecture notes (Fried, 2007). MRI studies of the brain indicate that the brain stores information differently when distracted, which occurs when students attempt to multi-task in class (Foerde, Knowlton, & Poldrack, 2006). The science of note-taking is also covered, which indicates verbatim typing may interfere with learning (e.g., Kiewra, 1991). The paper concludes by urging law school professors to review why laptops are allowed in their classrooms and, unless they feel that laptops increase student learning, to ban or heavily restrict their classroom use.