{"id":6083,"date":"2017-12-05T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:09","slug":"laptops-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/05\/laptops-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptops are great, but not during class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6087\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6087\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg\" alt=\"workshop at university. rear view of students sitting and listening in lecture hall doing practical tasks on their laptops.\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg 450w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_kasto\">kasto \/ 123RF Stock Photo<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"187\" data-total-count=\"187\">Step into any college auditorium and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops as the professor lectures. But you won\u2019t see that when <strong>Susan Dynarski,<\/strong>\u00a0a professor of education, public policy and economics, is teaching. In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/22\/business\/laptops-not-during-lecture-or-meeting.html?_r=1\">article for the &#8220;The New York Times,&#8221;<\/a> Dynarski claims she makes\u00a0a few exceptions, but generally bans electronics, including laptops, in her classes and research seminars. She admits her practice might\u00a0seem extreme and that there are some benefits that can come from the use of electronic devices in the area of teaching and learning. However, she believes that a\u00a0growing body of evidence shows that over all, college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. &#8220;They also tend to earn worse grades,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them. It\u2019s not much of a leap to expect that electronics also undermine learning in high school classrooms or that they hurt productivity in meetings in all kinds of workplaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step into any college auditorium and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops as the professor lectures. But you won\u2019t see that when Susan Dynarski,\u00a0a professor of education, public policy and economics, is teaching. In a recent article for the &#8220;The New York Times,&#8221; Dynarski claims she makes\u00a0a few exceptions,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/05\/laptops-class\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,45,96],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-students"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",450,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",450,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",450,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",450,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",450,300,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s-450x300.jpg",450,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",450,300,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/42146248_s.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Step into any college auditorium and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops as the professor lectures. 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