Note: This document has been translated from the original Chinese version found
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Digital distraction
University students in their classrooms, you can use notebook computer? They
are to concentrate on the notes, real-time Internet access for teachers stresses
the data? Distraction in the network or engage in other activities? If they do
distract other things, and even some movements and sounds affect the other
students tutoring, and teachers have the right to prohibit the use
of students in the class - T?
Canada's University Affairs magazine recently published an article in
digital distraction
(http://www.universityaffairs.ca/issues/2007/december/digital_distraction_01
.html) said: "If the back-end observation from the classroom, many students
use wireless T Xinhua engaged in non-learning activities, such as check
e-mail, using real-time chat - with friends, play games, or逛到Facebook
social websites such boost. ", and even some students in the class, do
online stock trading or watch pornography web site. This meeting with the
employees in the use of T, the situation is not like? A Chairman, in the
stage monologue, other people indulge in T electricity, is to concentrate on
a few people to listen to others speak? If no in-depth views on
communication and exchanges, it can produce the amount of effect?
Then the President the power to prohibit teachers or other people to use T
electricity? This will not cause rebound? If no conference room or classroom
use T electricity, schools or businesses that why spend huge funds to set up
wireless networks? Recently, Taiwan's Hsinchu Jiaotong University students,
the school provides networking quarters night prohibiting the practice
greatly rebound that is bureaucratic, but for the other hoping that there
will be the normal routines of students, with room roommate night Internet,
whether it is sound or light, will bring on sleep problems!
The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) of Okanagan College of
Environmental Science and Geography teacher Terence Day: "The student is
subject to the ban and T, the most serious harassment, in the development of
decision-making if invited students to join and come to a consensus, and
self - the. "also with Canada's tertiary institutions to encourage students
responsible for their own learning coincides with the strategy.
Terrence at the beginning of the semester, whether in the classroom can be
used T, the question brought up for discussion, initially, students do not
consider it necessary to discuss, but when they talk about whether there is
a right to the T, to the classroom? Even when T, affecting the operation of
the students around them, and this right is the same? People began to warm
up, beginning with T thinking whether or not to allow the people sit, a
specific region, which will not affect other students? This discussion not
only within the classroom, the use T help, and also helps students on the
importance of attending school, respect for other students, and active
preparations for the voluntary participation of classroom activities that
have more in-depth and comprehensive thinking.
I think Terrence practice is very good, worthy of your consideration,
especially for some of the more arcane and boring courses, concentrate on
listening and thinking on the content of the teacher, is very important, but
many people encountered such occasions, instinct the want to flee, a pen,
the Internet is the fastest way to flee, so what slots can use T
electricity, what time will not do, but also with the students, teachers can
be on the agenda.
Many lectures or training courses will take the initiative to ask the
audience to switch off the phone, but the use of pen, but there is no
express provision, the general acquiescence is the way, although I am very
envious of those who do use a pen, notebook students, but I like to use a
pen to write Notes, because I think hand-copying, we can hear relatively
focused, but also to avoid their messages on the network was disrupted, it
is each person's habits different, without a mandatory requirement, carved
out of the pen, users of the regional seat in order to avoid interfering
with other, indeed worthy of consideration.
But I do not like meeting, each person with a T electricity, then you really
do not know, there are several other people who concentrate on listening to
the speakers, many of the Person in the conference room, but stood in the
heart of the pen, or report on eMail This video conference opened with what
is the difference? Can use in the electric pen? When can use? The President
can ask you to suspend the use of T electricity? These are worthy
enterprises and employees to consider and formulate guidelines!