WiFi Classroom: Boring Profs or Uninterested Students

"When you see 25 percent of the screens playing solitaire, besides its being distracting, you feel like a sucker for paying attention." [NY Times quoting Ian Ayres, professor at Yale Law School, on problems with computer use in class.]

"The NYT wrings its hands on behalf of university teachers whose WiFi-equipped classrooms are filled with students who are IMming, emailing, and surfing rather than listening. Oh, boo hoo. [via Boing Boing]