Is this before or after the students were told they were required to own a laptop to participate in their education? I'm just about finishing my own education,

Is this before or after the students were told they were required to own a laptop to participate in their education? I'm just about finishing my own education, and everyone there owned a laptop at the school's recommendation. Personally I used mine for a lot of rapid note-taking, which was a lot faster for me than having to write things down. It actually allowed me to take notes in real time which I am not able to do on paper. Then I also encountered a professor like the one in the submitted article who hated the idea of students using the devices the school encouraged them to buy for their education in his classroom. That class was the roughest for me, I found it very hard to work with my written notes (Which I no longer was used to using of course, since I used that laptop for years) and am convinced the class would have gone a lot better for me had the professor not decided to make a decision which set his classroom starkly apart from the rest. If the school has a policy of allowing laptops then I think it's terrible for a professor to override that.