Todd Zakrajsek discusses laptops – friend or foe? – on episode 187 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Laptops weren’t the problem to begin with — attention was the problem.
—Todd Zakrajsek

Banning the problem doesn’t change the attention to you — it changes it to something else.
—Todd Zakrajsek

We live in a better system of thinking than dichotomies.
—Todd Zakrajsek

You can’t ban bacon thoughts.
—Todd Zakrajsek

Resources Mentioned

• Paul Blowers on Episode 179
• No laptops in the lecture hall, by Seth Godin
• Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness, by Christine Harrington and‎ Todd Zakrajsek*

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