http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403939.html?wpisrc=newsletter
I am SO looking forward to flying to Seattle in a few weeks.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
a conundrum
From Inside Higher Ed:
Hey You! Pay Attention
The students sit in class, tapping away at their laptops as the boring old law professor mechanically plods through his lecture. Except one. Instead of hunching over a portable computer or a notebook, he’s playing solitaire with a deck of cards on his desk. The professor halts his droning. “What are you doing?” he demands. The student shrugs. “My laptop is broken,” he says.
It was a sketch, performed at a Yale Law School skit night some time ago, that sent a chill through the professors’ section in the auditorium.
Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale, remembers it well. Long a critic of giving students free reign to surf the Web during class, he’s tried multiple approaches to discouraging laptop users from distracting themselves with e-mail, games (like solitaire) and gossip. Now his theories are being put to the test.
Late last month, as students returned from spring break, the University of Chicago Law School announced that Internet access would be blocked from classrooms. While individual professors at law schools have created policies banning laptops or allowing them only for specific uses — and while some colleges don’t even have classroom Internet access, or mandate classroom-only use without any enforcement — the move by Chicago appears to be the first institution-wide directive of its kind. Already, there’s been an uproar among students and even senior administrators, while some law professors have stepped up to defend the policy.
As first reported in the blog Above the Law, Dean Saul Levmore sent an e-mail message to students on March 25 announcing the change, which came as a surprise to many. Calling the policy “experimental,” he said it would now be considered a “breach of our norms” to use the Internet during class time. . .
Hey You! Pay Attention
The students sit in class, tapping away at their laptops as the boring old law professor mechanically plods through his lecture. Except one. Instead of hunching over a portable computer or a notebook, he’s playing solitaire with a deck of cards on his desk. The professor halts his droning. “What are you doing?” he demands. The student shrugs. “My laptop is broken,” he says.
It was a sketch, performed at a Yale Law School skit night some time ago, that sent a chill through the professors’ section in the auditorium.
Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale, remembers it well. Long a critic of giving students free reign to surf the Web during class, he’s tried multiple approaches to discouraging laptop users from distracting themselves with e-mail, games (like solitaire) and gossip. Now his theories are being put to the test.
Late last month, as students returned from spring break, the University of Chicago Law School announced that Internet access would be blocked from classrooms. While individual professors at law schools have created policies banning laptops or allowing them only for specific uses — and while some colleges don’t even have classroom Internet access, or mandate classroom-only use without any enforcement — the move by Chicago appears to be the first institution-wide directive of its kind. Already, there’s been an uproar among students and even senior administrators, while some law professors have stepped up to defend the policy.
As first reported in the blog Above the Law, Dean Saul Levmore sent an e-mail message to students on March 25 announcing the change, which came as a surprise to many. Calling the policy “experimental,” he said it would now be considered a “breach of our norms” to use the Internet during class time. . .
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Yay, France!
Saturday, April 12, 2008
This is the greatest sentence I have ever read in a newspaper.
The spectacle of the Games being attacked by enraged Liechtensteiners would be too much to bear.
Tony Prerettot, "Beware of Greeks Bearing Placards," NYT, April 12, 2008.
Tony Prerettot, "Beware of Greeks Bearing Placards," NYT, April 12, 2008.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
OMG - We live in a police state. I'm pretty sure we meet the definiton at this point.
Good thing we've got fast food and crappy televison to asuage us!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304136.html?wpisrc=newsletter
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304136.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Thursday, April 3, 2008
huh
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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