Educators should not make the mistake of assuming that college students want to use technology in the classroom to the same extent that they do outside of it, according to a study by two researchers ...

Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students vigorously took ...

I’ve heard that it’s better for students to take notes by hand. Should I ban laptops in the classroom? Blanket bans aren’t a good idea. Here’s something I wrote recently about the topic for Character ...

At a teaching workshop last week, a new faculty member asked me how I felt about students using laptops in the classroom. I replied, “I ask students not to use laptops in my classroom—unless a student ...

Today, I’ve asked Daniel Oppenheimer to share his tip of the week. Hi, I’m Danny Oppenheimer. If laptops are banned in your child’s classroom, you may have heard of me. That’s because it was my lab ...

Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.

Laptops are ubiquitous in Brown’s classrooms. Whether in a 100-student lecture or a small seminar, many students spend most of the class staring intently at the screen a few feet in front of them, ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

The new question-of-the-week is: Many teachers will now be teaching for the first time in the physical classroom with students who have laptops every day. What are your suggestions for how teachers ...

PHILADELPHIA — Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students ...