Thursday, Feb. 9, 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. in Belk Pavilion 201 (snacks provided)
Join colleagues during this Talking Teaching to discuss approaches to student laptop use in the classroom and the implications of those for student learning and for our teaching. The debate about which approach to choose is complicated. Should we:
- encourage students to use laptops in class to help them make connections, and incorporate new technologies into our teaching (Lang 2016),
- ban laptops in the classroom because longhand note taking may be better for learning (Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014),
- allow them because some students require them for accommodations (Godden and Womack 2016),
- figure out some other strategy, because, as James Lang argues, “the problem is not going away” anytime soon (Lang 2016)?
What approach do you take? How do you communicate it? How does it enable learning?
Co-sponsored by CATL, Disabilities Services, and Teaching and Learning Technologies.