Comments on: Shame On Those Pesky, Distracting Laptops http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2009/02/10/shame-on-those-pesky-distracting-laptops/ Proud Sponsor of Your Future Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2009/02/10/shame-on-those-pesky-distracting-laptops/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Brian Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:04:58 +0000 http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=258#comment-727 Good post and the article provides some insight in the thought process of most professors. A majority of them don't understand what a wonderful opportunity they have to engage their students. A few 'get it'. The instructors who have been around for a long time and almost never adjust their courses from year to year will dismiss laptops and almost any other technology as a "disruption". Those that are willing to change, will find a way to incorporate the use of tech (web 2.0 tools, chat, cell phone, etc.) into their curriculum. The world has changed since straight lecture based learning was one of the only modes for learning in HE. There are so many ways (many free and easy to learn) for professors to incorporated tech into their lectures. Reminds me of an article I read a little while back: The Three-E Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to Technological Change http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/TheThreeEStrategyforOverc/47686 I like the quote from the Educause link above: "...the practitioners were forced to use the technology given to them without consideration for their real needs or even whether there were critical shortcomings in the technology. Given the option, they would have discarded the technology as a nuisance rather than essential." Good post and the article provides some insight in the thought process of most professors. A majority of them don’t understand what a wonderful opportunity they have to engage their students. A few ‘get it’.

The instructors who have been around for a long time and almost never adjust their courses from year to year will dismiss laptops and almost any other technology as a “disruption”. Those that are willing to change, will find a way to incorporate the use of tech (web 2.0 tools, chat, cell phone, etc.) into their curriculum.

The world has changed since straight lecture based learning was one of the only modes for learning in HE. There are so many ways (many free and easy to learn) for professors to incorporated tech into their lectures.

Reminds me of an article I read a little while back:
The Three-E Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to
Technological Change

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/TheThreeEStrategyforOverc/47686

I like the quote from the Educause link above:
“…the practitioners were forced to use the technology
given to them without consideration for their real needs
or even whether there were critical shortcomings in the
technology. Given the option, they would have discarded
the technology as a nuisance rather than essential.”

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