No, Really?
So apparently there’s a professorial backlash going on against web-surfing in class, because it’s proving to be such a distraction.
Nonsense! I’ve hardly *ever* found class to pose any serious interference to my web-surfing.
Oh… wait? They meant the other way around?
In [today’s Wall Street Journal] article, various professors complain about students’ use of wireless laptops in the classroom — professors state that students are using their wireless computers to do all sorts of activities in class such as play chess and buy “a pair of sneakers on eBay.”
One professor sniffs, “you can be in front of the classroom and your hair could catch on fire and they’ll never notice it because their eyes are glued to the 14-inch screen at the end of their nose.”
Oh now that really *is* nonsense. I would never not notice my professor’s hair catching on fire– any blogger worth their salt has to be on the lookout for bloggable material at all times. Plus, if this were my CivPro professor, I would have one eye on his physical gesticulations already, in case any of them matched the squares on our “Gunner Bingo” cards. Duh!
