[quote=josiah33]Sometimes back the so called lifestyle diseases were only found amongst the rich but have now found there way down and they affect even the not so rich. My prediction is that in the not so far future we will have some new 'posh' diseases being diagnosed here and which would mostly affect the rich kids in "computer labs" somewhere in some hi-tech schools in Kenya- "diseases" like LAPTOP-ITIS.


http://usatoday30.usatod...08-22-laptop-pain_N.htm[/quote]


FYI, the article in USA Today is not peer-reviewed.

Unless you want to spread false notions, come back with a peer-reviewed source.

Moreover, learning in a classroom should be a social process in which the student interacts with the instructor and other students. I try to avoid straight lecturing in favor of engaging my students in interactive questions and answers. Moreover, I arrange ways in which the students can learn through discussions with each other. Even my biggest classes have a 5-minute allocation for small group discussions. Especially in an interdisciplinary class that attracts many different kinds of students, much can be learned from such discussions among them. I've noticed that laptop use discourages students from this kind of participation.