Good for him, I see people with laptops in class all of the time and without fail 100% of them browse facebook at least once or twice with the majority browsing all class.
How is that beneficial to the student OR the professor?
and...? it's the students money. If I'm handwriting notes, there is still phones. You can't ban phones in the classroom, people have phones on them all the time. They might browse the web or read email on their phone in class, or... text.
People are going to find a way to do something that isn't taking notes. Hell, I make random scratch drawings all the time.
And as for laptops... in my two classes I use my laptop in this quarter, I have OneNote maximized almost the entire time, if I browse away it's to look at my google portfolio. Or, gasp... the school's class content system website.
It's a legit method of note taking, and far more efficient. When you have professors who say that not only are the powerpoint slides testable, the things they talk about not on the slides are equally as testable, then um... I would like to write what they say down. I can't do that if I'm writing it by hand, not if I want to read it.
And if I'm taking notes and want to add more notes to a previous section, I can do that on the laptop (OneNote makes that crazy easy, just discovered its capabilities two weeks ago, and I am in love). Impossible with handwritten notes.
Fuck the professors who ban laptops. Unless only the reading material and the content on the slides, and not the more detailed discussions, will be tested...then handwriting isn't so terrible. But I've never been able to keep up with note taking for someone who quizzes the words they say in class, not with handwriting at least.
I should bring an old ass type writer to class.
