Comments on: Banning Laptops in University Classrooms

By: sj

sj — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:10:22 +0000

hi lucy,

Its quite interesting question,but I feel that you can see from professors point of view because they are also not interested to teach you .They also get distracted, so you use only for personal notes not do other things.

By: Josef

Josef — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:00:39 +0000

Hello Lucy

First, I’d like to thank you and Jeff for what you are doing and have done for us, it’s a piece of hard work and from my point of view, this website is one of the most useful ones for foreign students. Nevertheless, I’d like to comment what you’ve asked for.

Here in the Czech republic, students are not only allowed to bring their laptops to the university, back in the days I can remember I was even allowed to use it on high-school. The WiFi connection network here in Prague (CZ capital) is quite dense, personal high-school WiFis are not an exception. It depends, teacher may like it or not and he can either deny or allow using it. But when in Uni, you can do it the way you like as long as you come out with some results.

Joey

By: DEN

DEN — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:18:45 +0000

It is a very interesting question. I think, if it is not necessary for a teacher to use laptops by students, he should ban it. When a student comes to a lecture, he has to conform to the rules. If he wants to surf on the web, he has to stay at home or go to the internet café. But on the lecture a student has to get knowledge and this is his job. If a student understands the lecture is not interesting for him, so boring, he can not go there and surfs the web. But if he makes a choice to attend a class, he should show respect to his professor even it is a boring lecture.
Unfortunately, in Ukrainian universities you have to attend even boring lectures, because many professors make notes of their lecture’s attendance and it can influence your mark or you can have certain problems passing exam. For example, you can get additional question on the lecture you missed or you can write a work on the theme of missed lecture.
We do not have a problem with using laptops in the classroom. There is no WiFi Internet access in the most Ukrainian universities.

By: xjw0316

xjw0316 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:36:09 +0000

I don’t think it’s so hard to understand for this. Nearly everyone have a loptop or PC for current students, and the point is how to use it. Someone use it to get more knowledge and getting familar with the environment out of school. It is good for these students to use laptop. But sames like that most students use it to play games.

By: SANCHO

SANCHO — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:28:34 +0000

Hi everybody. Is the first time I write here, so I want to introduce myself, my name is Sancho and I’m writting from Spain. About this topic I would like to say, It seems me unbelievable. I can’t understand how the proffessors in USA allow lastop in class while they are explaining some topics. In Spain, in my university there is wifi connection two years ago… but is not allowed to use it during the classroom. It can be very bad for your final score!!!

Regards,
Sancho.

By: Long Chung

Long Chung — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:47:26 +0000

Hi every one.I am Long from Viet Nam. I completely agree that laptops should be used in the right time and the right place , that is right attitude to others or the right culture,it’s unacceptable when professors giving lectures while students playing games,chatting,or doing some else…
Hope you all think that too.
Bye
Best Regards

By: Aurione Alves

Aurione Alves — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:35:22 +0000

Hi everybody!
I’m from Brazil and I study at Unibratec and in my campus we have wi-fi.
Unibratec is IT University and we really need to study with a laptop, but some professors don’t appreciate it.

By: Daniel Chavarria

Daniel Chavarria — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:30:16 +0000

Hi everybody!!! I am a student and in all my classes I can use my laptop, is the best tool that we have, we can complement our class material surfing in the internet. If you really want to learn you can’t be distracted by anything, although you are using a laptop on classes.
Daniel Chavarria from COSTA RICA, CENTRAL AMERICA.

By: Matheus Zingarelli

Matheus Zingarelli — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:21:19 +0000

Hi!
I study at USP-Brazil and in my campus we also have wi-fi in the entire campus. The question about banning laptops or not is really new, so there’s no official rule for it. It deppends wether the professor allow it or not. However, from my experience, most of the professors are banning our laptops in their classes and I really approve it. Using laptops during classes distracts not only the user, but also the other students around s/he.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:44:46 +0000

Well I can’t imagine a laptop in a classrooms, too much for my imagination. In fact I have been a teacher for some years, just teaching grammar and math. doing this extra work for five years more or less, and I was very serious in my classroom.
I alwas have in mind that is better to be watching to all what the teacher says, and asking him/her all we don’t understand. I think this is the best way of learning, and not writting so much notes. Only the neccesary to support the ideas given by the teacher.

Goodie, Meeho, you are wellcome to this friendly blog.

Same as Mehdiy I really wish to have been in your class Lucy, sure it had to be a great pleasure being there listening to you with all my mind open to your lectures, and of course writting nothing, only listening and looking at you.

By the way, are we going to see you, Lucy?. We all hope so.