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Originally Posted by hermance
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.
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I guess everybody got to share about pro's and con's of laptops/netbooks/pctablets in classroom. It's OLD school. Just like we have computers in elementary school today , it's just a fact of life. And law school and most other PRO fields have gone that way, we understand touchy-feel-ie stuff and all the rest and student/teacher re-pore. My medical teachers had chalk and board and from beginning of class to end , just talked facts and anything was fair game on test. Let's just stop the classroom stuff and focus on ereader for law texts, best way to scan docs/programs and hints for making them useful for studying. We all learn differently, some are visual, auditory, and some are the other couple of ways, whatever works is what works. Stop telling us YOUR WAY is the BEST way, just it is way that works for you. My philosophy , english teacher, history teacher, and other touchie-feel-ie subjects are about shifting consciousness. A changed consciousness changes everything. There are faster and more tech ways to study , but this is thread about ereader for lawyer books. Rickie and others have come up with good suggestions. Keep them coming.