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Originally Posted by kellemonster
Look, I understand where you are coming from, if it isn't law school or science, then laptops are pretty useless.
For law, you do need to be writing almost everything down because the question "will this be on the exam" is a silly question. Everything ever mentioned in class could be on the exam.
Take Civil Procedure, there are almost 100 rules, if you take into account the subparts, at least a 1000 distinct pieces of information. And then those rules have been interpreted, and interrelate and have ambiguities. Everyone is typing almost the whole time, and it is necessary.
But in the social sciences, humanities, or languages, no, it's not necessary.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist. But this is a really silly argument. One can make similar claims about almost any discipline--say, history or psychology or on and on. And of course, law school and intensely complicated legal codes existed long before laptops.
Look, I'm not saying that law students don't need to take lots of notes; virtually all post-graduate programs require intensive notetaking in class. I'm just saying that different professors have different pedagogical perspectives. Some want students taking lots of notes, but others would rather have students be active participants at times. It's generally the professors in the latter category who get frustrated by incessant laptop use, and those professors can be in any discipline. Since there was so much eyerolling about professors' exasperation about laptops, I just wanted to give a different perspective on the issue.