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Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites

Barry Margolin (barmar@alum.mit.edu)
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:26:51 -0400

In article <telecom24.255.12@telecom-digest.org>, tls@panix.com (Thor
Lancelot Simon) wrote:

> In article <telecom24.254.9@telecom-digest.org>,
> Gary Novosielski <gpn@suespammers.org> wrote:

>> Fred Atkinson wrote:

>>> Sorry to come down on you this hard, but limiting student access to
>>> information simply because we think they don't 'need' access to it is
>>> a pretty short sighted opinion for an educator to take.

>> You're presuming that it's educators who are in favor of blocking
>> technology, but I think that's jumping to an unsupported conclusion.

> As both an educator and a student, I am, in fact, in favor of
> "blocking technology". The last thing I need is students distracted
> by more crap on their laptops while I'm lecturing -- and the last
> thing I need, as a student, is more distraction.

What does this have to do with technology being used in the
appropriate place, like a library?

You don't want students doing other things when they're supposed to be
listening to you. That's not particular to technology -- before IM,
you'd have had to deal with kids passing paper notes between each
other.

Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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