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It's not the laptops that are the problem, it's the lectures. Check out flipped classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom https://en.wikipedia.o
by ptman 9y ago
It's not the laptops that are the problem, it's the lectures. Check out flipped classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom - watch lectures/read a book/etc on your own time and attend problem solving with teachers / TAs available.
- wpietri 9y agoWow! Yes, this seems much better. The key opportunity of being all together in a room is interactivity. Large lectures mostly waste that: the time gap between having a question and getting it answered can be large. (E.g., having to wait until discussion section puts a gap of hours to days between the Q and the A.) But when I'm trying to apply the material, I'm not in passive listening mode. There, hopefully my feedback loop with the material is in the seconds-to-minutes range. If I'm stuck, being able to get a question answered can keep me in the zone of fast learning.