Comments on: Laptop U: Where No One Looks at the Professor http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:33:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Miss82 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-428331 Miss82 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:24:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-428331 When I encounter problems at the bench, I use my computer to learn from other watchmakers. , When I encounter problems at the bench, I use my computer to learn from other watchmakers. ,

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]]> By: English Education Professor :: Maybe It’s Time to Let Go of the Professor as Entertainer Metaphor?Pajamas Media » Laptop U: Where No One Looks at the Professor http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-42191 English Education Professor :: Maybe It’s Time to Let Go of the Professor as Entertainer Metaphor?Pajamas Media » Laptop U: Where No One Looks at the Professor Tue, 20 May 2008 18:16:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-42191 [...] Pajamas Media » Laptop U: Where No One Looks at the Professor I’m in the midst of a brilliant lecture. I’m very well prepared for this class. I have thirty or forty Powerpoint slides that boil down the textbook chapter into handy outlines. I have included outside material that I spent hours finding and scanning. I have even inserted a two minute clip from a news show that someone had uploaded to YouTube. I also genuinely find this topic fascinating, so I’m able to talk passionately about it. I’m pacing and making wild arm movements. I’m wearing a short skirt. [...] [...] Pajamas Media » Laptop U: Where No One Looks at the Professor I’m in the midst of a brilliant lecture. I’m very well prepared for this class. I have thirty or forty Powerpoint slides that boil down the textbook chapter into handy outlines. I have included outside material that I spent hours finding and scanning. I have even inserted a two minute clip from a news show that someone had uploaded to YouTube. I also genuinely find this topic fascinating, so I’m able to talk passionately about it. I’m pacing and making wild arm movements. I’m wearing a short skirt. [...]

]]> By: Zingara http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-38848 Zingara Sun, 11 May 2008 16:59:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-38848 As a student at university, I was put off by the amount of PowerPoint used in class. Whilst I appreciate that many students are 'visual learners', and therefore enjoy slide presentations in which notes are presented to them in bitesize, good-looking format, I missed the days of sixth form college when my legendary Sociology teacher, Norm, would give out masses of typewritten pages of notes, then wade through them bit by bit. Admittedly, the class tended to descend into a debate between me and him; the other students getting bored and texting/IMing/etc.; but I found it a brilliant way of learning. My (always handwritten) notes were comprehensive and more than sufficient for revision. I always did (and, now that I'm in the world of academic research, still do) resent the fact that everything must be word processed, even in first draft; it leads inevitably to me typing up Take#3 or #4 of whatever piece I'm writing, instead of submitting the actual first draft, which I have to handwrite if I want to feel at all in touch with the work. Whoops, bit of a rant there. Sorry! As a student at university, I was put off by the amount of PowerPoint used in class. Whilst I appreciate that many students are ‘visual learners’, and therefore enjoy slide presentations in which notes are presented to them in bitesize, good-looking format, I missed the days of sixth form college when my legendary Sociology teacher, Norm, would give out masses of typewritten pages of notes, then wade through them bit by bit. Admittedly, the class tended to descend into a debate between me and him; the other students getting bored and texting/IMing/etc.; but I found it a brilliant way of learning. My (always handwritten) notes were comprehensive and more than sufficient for revision. I always did (and, now that I’m in the world of academic research, still do) resent the fact that everything must be word processed, even in first draft; it leads inevitably to me typing up Take#3 or #4 of whatever piece I’m writing, instead of submitting the actual first draft, which I have to handwrite if I want to feel at all in touch with the work.
Whoops, bit of a rant there. Sorry!

]]> By: ilikemilk http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-36183 ilikemilk Mon, 05 May 2008 17:56:17 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-36183 yo i think the students are right yo i think the students are right

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]]> By: Anon http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-32291 Anon Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:34:41 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-32291 What is happening to students today? I can't believe they could ignore the short skirt! What is happening to students today? I can’t believe they could ignore the short skirt!

]]> By: Gozer the Carpathian http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-32172 Gozer the Carpathian Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:09:10 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-32172 Hear hear Kevin! The only windblows machines I have here at work (a NASA facility BTW) are the ones used for emails and web use. ALL of the ones doing the real work are UNIX and LINUX machines. (Though I do sneak my personal Mac in) Schools shouldn't be foisting computer choices onto the students, especially since all types of computers can do the same basic stuff the schools need. (I.e. Word Processing) As to the topic at hand I never had a laptop in school. Oh sure I've grown up with computers but Laptops were too bulky, expensive, and slow when I was in College to bother with. Let me have my Quake II machine in the dorm anytime. (Shows how old I am. ;) ) In the end the teachers in College were all the same. Yammer on and on about whatever all class time long. I learned diddly during the class because I was basically forced to read and learn it my own way anyway. Luckily I figured that out part way through the year and stopped going to the really boring lectures. (More sleep!) What really matters though is not whether they have laptops in the classroom or not, but whether they're LEARNING anything or not. Isn't that what's school is all about? LEARNING? Hear hear Kevin! The only windblows machines I have here at work (a NASA facility BTW) are the ones used for emails and web use. ALL of the ones doing the real work are UNIX and LINUX machines. (Though I do sneak my personal Mac in)
Schools shouldn’t be foisting computer choices onto the students, especially since all types of computers can do the same basic stuff the schools need. (I.e. Word Processing)

As to the topic at hand I never had a laptop in school. Oh sure I’ve grown up with computers but Laptops were too bulky, expensive, and slow when I was in College to bother with. Let me have my Quake II machine in the dorm anytime. (Shows how old I am. ;) )

In the end the teachers in College were all the same. Yammer on and on about whatever all class time long. I learned diddly during the class because I was basically forced to read and learn it my own way anyway. Luckily I figured that out part way through the year and stopped going to the really boring lectures. (More sleep!)

What really matters though is not whether they have laptops in the classroom or not, but whether they’re LEARNING anything or not. Isn’t that what’s school is all about? LEARNING?

]]> By: Matt http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-32159 Matt Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:37:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-32159 This post is a little off topic, but there is little incentive for students to listen in class because of grade inflation. College is a commodity. If you are going to get an "A" anyway, what is the point in listening. There is probably a strong correlation between the difficulty of a class, the willingness of the professor to give bad grades, and the attention paid in class. For whatever reason, most college classes, outside the hard sciences, are really easy to pass with high marks. The way colleges are set up, students that actually want an education have to look for it themselves. This post is a little off topic, but there is little incentive for students to listen in class because of grade inflation. College is a commodity. If you are going to get an “A” anyway, what is the point in listening. There is probably a strong correlation between the difficulty of a class, the willingness of the professor to give bad grades, and the attention paid in class. For whatever reason, most college classes, outside the hard sciences, are really easy to pass with high marks. The way colleges are set up, students that actually want an education have to look for it themselves.

]]> By: A Teacher http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/comment-page-2/#comment-32136 A Teacher Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:11:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/laptop-u-where-no-one-looks-at-the-professor/#comment-32136 I agree with Marc "I think the challenge is to integrate the technology into the class....Providing a power-point is not enough, engage them with a task". Engage the student's in your presentation - don't just talk at them. Create a chat (monitored by a TA) to backchannel what you are presenting - believe me - the students will participate and feel good that they were able to voice their opinions about what you were presenting. Create polls, write on collaborative documents, start a bulletin board ... Engage them! They have all that technology right at their fingertips ... why are you spending hours preparing the information - let them do it. They will and find resources you may not even be aware of. Kids today are different. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o I agree with Marc “I think the challenge is to integrate the technology into the class….Providing a power-point is not enough, engage them with a task”.

Engage the student’s in your presentation – don’t just talk at them. Create a chat (monitored by a TA) to backchannel what you are presenting – believe me – the students will participate and feel good that they were able to voice their opinions about what you were presenting. Create polls, write on collaborative documents, start a bulletin board … Engage them!

They have all that technology right at their fingertips … why are you spending hours preparing the information – let them do it. They will and find resources you may not even be aware of.

Kids today are different. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

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