Some professors allow laptops in the classroom, others don’t. Personally, I believe that laptop use should be permitted in almost all classes with rare exceptions. The arguments on either side of the ...

Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.

Moore opts for a no-tech classroom, one that is taught using chalk and a shared appreciation for learning. She emphasizes the ...

I’ve heard that it’s better for students to take notes by hand. Should I ban laptops in the classroom? Blanket bans aren’t a good idea. Here’s something I wrote recently about the topic for Character ...

“We’re in this breathless moment,” said Casey Mock, senior policy director for the Anxious Generation, a team that is pushing ...

At a teaching workshop last week, a new faculty member asked me how I felt about students using laptops in the classroom. I replied, “I ask students not to use laptops in my classroom—unless a student ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

The new question-of-the-week is: Many teachers will now be teaching for the first time in the physical classroom with students who have laptops every day. What are your suggestions for how teachers ...

Today, I’ve asked Daniel Oppenheimer to share his tip of the week. Hi, I’m Danny Oppenheimer. If laptops are banned in your child’s classroom, you may have heard of me. That’s because it was my lab ...

Laptops are ubiquitous in Brown’s classrooms. Whether in a 100-student lecture or a small seminar, many students spend most of the class staring intently at the screen a few feet in front of them, ...

A study takes a close look at the effect of electronics in the classroom. Cellphones and laptops can be distracting for students in classrooms, and new research also shows that using electronic ...