Lesson №15 Types of Correction code

Self-study material (The Writer’s Workplace with Readings, Sandra Scarry and John Scarry)

Read the given essays, find the mistakes and correct them using correction code
No, to Laptops in the Classrooms

Last fall I was called upon teach a large section of our introductory sociology class for the first time in years. Almost immediately, i was struck by the walls of laptop screens stretching across the risers of the lectere hall. About half of the students were busily typing away.

My assumption that the students were using their machines to take notes was shatter a couple weeks later when during a break I walked to the top of the classroom and looked across the hall from the rear. On most of the students’ screens were games, and chats, e-mail, and videos. I even sat down in any empty seatin the back now next to a student playing a video games he was oblivious of my presence until other students sitting around us began to laugh.

Later. I talked with the class about my observations. I was regaled with stories about their abilities to multitask. Interestingly, none of the computerless students spoke up during the discussion. After class was a different story. Student after student approached me to report how distracted it was to have classmates all around them “multitasking” on games, chats and music videos. They were having similar experiences in every class they were taking and their levels of frastration were rising because teachers didn’t seem to care.

My eyes were opened that day by day rear of the lecture hall and from frustrated students. I established a row in the front of the class for students who needed or desired to use laptops for talking notes and banned computers from the rest of the lecture hall. There were a few groans from students initially, but no substantive complaints after the first day, however, there are few things that I have done in class over the years that have earned more positive comments.