[blindlaw] FW: Law Students Report Positive Reaction to No-Laptop Policy, ABA Journal, March 5, 2009

[Locke Milholland]

I went to a law school with roughly 120 students per class.  I had a few 
professors with a no laptop policy.  With the professors, my typical 
accommodation request went something like, "Professor, do you mind if I use 
my laptop?"
The professor would reply, "Of course not."

There are two policies, the public one is students interact better when they 
aren't taking dictation style notes.

The second one is, students perform better when they aren't playing 
solitaire during class.

We did have one student make the unfortunate mistake of emailing the 
professor, as if she weren't in class at the moment, while the professor was 
giving a powerpoint presentation, and had his email program running in the 
background.  He read it for the class.
Locke