A number of universities in the U.S. have taken steps to ban laptops in lecture halls after finding that, instead of diligently taking notes, several students have been using them to play poker online. So far, the move to keep laptops from the classroom has been made by individual lecturers only, with entire institutions yet to adopt policies against laptops.

In addition to the online poker problem, some professors feel that, by incessantly typing notes on their laptops, students miss out on the crux of the lectures. But students aren't thrilled about this approach. At the University of Memphis, students went so far as to file an ultimately futile complaint with the American Bar Association after their law professor threw the books at laptops. Students have also said that, if it weren't online poker, they would find other ways to distract themselves, and, thus, banning laptops may cure the symptom, but not the condition.

Source:  Poker777 Staff

Saturday, 06 May 2006