Comment Another angle (Score 1) 804
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of disussion about laptops being tools - being useful in some instances, harmful in others - so I'm going to avoid that point and instead raise the issue of accessability. As it is, educational attainment is scewed by socio-economic status - be it grades, prestige of the institution attended, networks formed, or whatever other measure desired. I'm not sure I want laptops in class if they're providing yet another unfair advantage to the economically priviledged kids, if indeed laptop use could be construed as such. Poorer kids already face significant hurdles in the classroom, are laptops going to prove to be yet another?