In an arbitrary classroom of 30 students, all nominally at the same level, the best possible professor will be talking at the correct level for roughly 4 (+/- 2) of them. Only the massively discredited HNU hypothesis allows anyone to think otherwise. This should change the laptops in classrooms debate. It doesn't.
UPDATE: It's not clear what I'm talking about. Here's Illka. And Blunt Object.
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Re laptops: are you suggesting that the students would largely be self-paced with computer work?
Perhaps he's suggesting that the professor will be terminally boring 13 of them and moving way too fast for 13 more?
Jehu,
Pretty close. Of course we're all adults here, and understand bell curves.
5-8 will be lost...5-8 more will be not quite getting all the points, but getting some of them. 5-8 more will be moderately ahead of the curve, leaving them some time to do other stuff, and 5-8 will be barely / not required to pay attention at all.
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