Teknoids

Seems the ABA Journal has seen fit to publish a rather inflammatory
piece on the growing bans on laptops in the classroom. The gory details
are here: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/profs_kibosh_students_laptops/

According to the article, Chicago-Kent is questioning the utility of
laptops in the classroom and Duke dropped its laptop requirement because
of increasing faculty pressure to ban laptops in the classroom. Is this
true? Anyone from Kent or Duke care to comment?

Being the curious guy that I am, I'm wondering what is going on here.
Are faculty really revolting against the use of laptops in the
classroom? Is this just tabloid journalism? Is faculty pressure on the
use of laptops in the classroom really affecting law school computer
requirement policies? Is there a fire behind all this smoke?

As a guy about to roll out a mess of cool web tools that would be neat
to use in the classroom, I sure like to know if I'll be feeling the love
or the wrath of the faculty at AALS in January:)

Finally, let's do a poll: http://www.teknoids.net/poll/laptops2007 Let
teknoids know if you're school requires laptops or not. The poll is
open for the next 2 weeks.

Thanks,
Elmer.
Yes, this was written on a laptop, in my kitchen...