TLT CoffeeRead: Wireless classrooms – necessarily a good thing?
Posted on May 8, 2008
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Wireless classrooms – necessarily a good thing?
Student at Middlebury College in Vermont finds students ignoring lectures to surf on their laptops “overly annoying”.
What do you think? What can we tell students and faculty who are dismayed at the amount of students ignoring lectures and abusing wireless connections during class time?
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