Laptop uses in the bs classroom

doschicos
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:45:41 +0000

During all the revisits we went to I don’t remember seeing much use of laptops in classrooms. I do remember some kids jotting a few notes in notebooks but even that wasn’t a lot. My guess is it’s due to the participatory nature of the classroom. With 12 students and a teacher, the classes are discussion based and not lecture based so the setting is not as conducive to keyboarding during class. I would imagine it would be like recording an event on a camcorder - I always feel like I’m not part of an event when I try to do it. I would think it would be hard to take notes on a computer when a discussion is rapidly moving from one student to the next.