[martin_fierro]

< lame waffle > I guess I can see both sides. < /lame waffle >

[martin_fierro]

 

June F. Entman

Professor of Law
 

Teaching interests: Civil Procedure, Advanced Civil Procedure, Evidence.

Education: B. A., 1967, Smith College; M. A. T., 1969, University of Chicago; J. D., May, 1981, The University of Memphis School of Law.

Experience: Associate, Burch, Porter & Johnson, Memphis, 1982-84; Law Clerk for Honorable Charles E. Nearn, Tennessee Court of Appeals, 1981-82; Social Studies teacher, 1968-75, New Trier High School, Northfield, Illinois; joined the University of Memphis School of Law faculty in 1984.

Admitted: Tennessee.

Achievements/Publications: Co-author with Robert Banks, Jr. of the treatise Tennessee Civil Procedure 1999.  Professor Entman has authored several articles primarily in the areas of evidence and civil procedure for the Case Western Reserve Law Review, The University of Memphis Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the University of Florida Law Review, and the Tennessee Bar Journal; she has served as reporter for Tennessee Pattern Jury Instructions-Civil, 8 Tennessee Practice (2nd ed. 1988 & Supp. 1990); Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution, 1992-94; Local Rules Advisory Committee, United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 1989-92.
 

[martin_fierro]

Students have begun collecting signatures on petitions and tried unsuccessfully to file a complaint with the American Bar Association.

They're 0/1.

[vimto]

I liked the idea that 'typing' has now become 'keyboarding'. Nouns into verbs. Ho hum.

kind regards

[bvw]

No two sides to see. The Professor is the Master of her class, like the Captain is Master of his ship, or a driver is Master of his vehicle. A total King in his domain (or in this case Queen in her domain).

Now the students have a choice -- they can switch to another section under a different prof, a different class, another school -- or not go to law school at all. In Illinois they could even still become lawyers WITHOUT going to law school. (Hooray for Illinois!)

The Professor's word is the LAW.

[1rudeboy]

Good for the professor.

[1rudeboy]

Excellent treatment of the issue here, if anyone's curious. Good enough to lose her a job at Chicago-Kent, according to rumor.

Molly Lien, Technocentrism and the Soul of the Common Law Lawyer, 48 Am. U. L. Rev. 85 (1998).

[wideawake]

The students are the customers, purchasing instruction from the professor. If the university is a good vendor, it will instruct this wayward employee to give the customers the convenience they expect.

[RightOnline]

The little buggers are FReepin', I tell ya......

[R. Scott]

Winsett says he won't be able to keep up if he has to rely on hand-written notes, which he says are incomplete and less organized.

That’s good. My handwriting is pretty bad, and my notes too were incomplete and ill organized. This had the advantage of forcing me to organize my notes after class instead of drinking and having a good time – but I enjoyed learning so it wasn’t all that bad for me.
Going over the incomplete notes helps to install the information in memory. Searching short term memory to decipher notes is reinforcement. Concentrating on the laptop and what you are typing does distract from what is being disseminated in class.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Professor June Entman says her main concern is that students are so busy keyboarding they can't think and analyze what she's telling them

. . . which is why she should hand out notes on what she was going to say.

[ken5050]

Many, many years ago..during inorganic chem class frosh year of college..2nd lecture of the semester..taught, BTW..by a very distinguished professor, not a GA..50 or so in the lecture hall..he walks in..asks a question of the class..of course no one volunteers..he looks down at us..says.."either all of you are geniuses, and know all the material, and think the question is beneath you, or you are all cretins, and haven't bothered to even open the book. In either case, there's no point in wasting my time, and yours.."..and he walked out of the room..

needless to say..from that day forward..all of us were vigorous paticipants in the discussion.

[DaGman]

And there's a whole helluva lot of us that have one or more degrees and did it all with (OMG!) handwritten notes. My handwriting has never been legible since then. But I can read my writing, most of the time, as long as it hasn't been too long since I wrote it!

[Sam's Army]

I guarantee you most of the laptop attention in college courses is not on note taking or internal school resources. It's either ESPN.com, Freerepublic.com, or Drudge.

I speak from firsthand experience....so guilty as charged.

This wouldn't be a bad idea for the corporate world either, too many folks panicking at emails (which will still be there when they can get back online) instead of providing ideas/debate in meetings.

[Squantos]

I dropped out of law school when they told me I couldn't bring my thermos to class..........

[Cyclopean Squid]

I posting from my laptop in Trust & Wills RIGHT NOW! MUHUHAHAHAHAHA

[Cyclopean Squid]

Also, one of my profs also banned laptops in class, but it didn't make national headlines. It doesn't matter; instead of surfing the net during class, I drew pictures and wrote lame Haikus in my notebook.

[ShadowAce]

The students should just bring small tape recorders to class and tape the lecture. Then they could type out their notes afterwards.

[zeaal]

What a great idea!

[freedomlover]

Proabably most worried about those recording the lecture to MP3.