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Article: IT: Intellectually Taxing? At least one professor worries about the intellectual impact of some student-directed uses of technology.(Mark Bauerlein)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- March 19, 2009
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By the professor's rule, students in the English classes of Dr. Mark Bauerlein at Emory University must take notes by hand. Laptops must be turned off, he says, to ensure students focus on what s happening in the room, rather than on what s floating around cyberspace.
"In half of those screens, they're on Facebook" Bauerlein says of the situation in other college classrooms. "They're not taking notes, they're doing e-mail."
Note-taking is not the only low-tech learning in Bauerlein's classes. He requires students to write the first draft of papers in long hand. He guides them in poring over the text of literature, one paragraph and one sentence at a ...
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