Laptop Addicts

Laptops are in every campus around the nation. Colleges require them or highly suggest students to have a laptop and use it for class. In an article from the Washington Post by Daniel de Vise, he tells about how many schools in this day and age are now banning laptops from the classroom. Some professors are seeing a common trend and this trend is not a good one. The professors are finding that laptops are doing more distracting in the classroom then learning.

Professors are not stupid and they realize with wireless Internet and laptops students are making these professors compete with their attention with sites like YouTube, facebook, blog sites, etc. Some professors have gone to drastic measures to prove their point that they do not want laptops in their classroom. One professor from Oklahoma took liquid nitrogen and poured it onto a students laptop and then threw it onto the floor where it broke into a thousand pieces. Professors also believe that students that do use laptops in class tend to score as low as kids that do not show up to class at all. One professor tracked the grades of 17 students who were "laptop addicts" and found that their average grade in the class was a 71% which was close to the average of students that do not show up.

Check out this YouTube clip. It is the actual clip of the professor destroying the laptop and has grossed over 1,000,000 hits. Its pretty funny.