About 90% of schools provide laptops or tablets to their students. Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students vigorously took ...

Some local professors have banned laptops during class, associating them with being a hindrance. Meanwhile, others have them as a requirement.

As the first week of the semester has already passed, most classes have reviewed their syllabi and class rules. For some students, those rules have included a ban on laptops that probably comes as a ...

While moderate use of computer devices can have academic benefits, especially when they are used at home, intensive use is often correlated with diminishing performance, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.

Today, we've asked Daniel Oppenheimer to share his tip of the week. Hi, I’m Danny Oppenheimer. If laptops are banned in your child’s classroom, you may have heard of me. That’s because it was my lab ...

A study takes a close look at the effect of electronics in the classroom. Cellphones and laptops can be distracting for students in classrooms, and new research also shows that using electronic ...

In this brave new world of twenty-first century higher education, it is now axiomatic that professors must employ every possible digital device in order to engage their students. This has led to the ...

If this university truly wants to support student success, it must act now by implementing stronger classroom phone policies.