By Curt Hopkins, ars technica
Today, it is not unusual to see students armed to the teeth with laptops, web books, tablets and smart phones. Instead of merely recording the audio of a lecture, students can video it. They can also chat, read Pitchfork, post photos to Facebook and, time allowing, collaborate with their fellows on in-class projects in real-time. Students today have access to as much data from their portable devices as was in existence for the students of the first universities. “The students I’m teaching now,” one professor of the European history of ideas told Ars, “can get infinitely more information so much quicker than earlier classes ever could. But they are capable of doing less with it. They seem stunned in the face of analytical demands.” This intellectual alchemy is more difficult, he seemed to think, in an era with an emphasis on data and speed.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/05/future-u-classroom-tech.ars
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