makes sense (Score 1)

It is easy to screw around when you have a laptop and the screen is faced away from teacher -- very easy to just look at some webpage. My favorite learning aid is a voice recorder. Then you don't have to pay much attention the first time, just show up -- invaluable for test review and the like, especially if teacher is a mumbler or poor speaker of English. Of course, the whole mode of instruction where a bunch of kids sit in front of teacher and write notes seems to be getting a bit antiquated.