Kathleen > wrote:

>I substitute teach in our local school district. Use and/or display of
>"electronic devices" is prohibited district wide although enforcement
>varies from school to school. I personally have no objections to the
>use of IPODs and the like assuming I'm not actually testing, lecturing
>or explaining assignments at the time.
>
>In my experience, when an assignment for in-class work has been given,
>allowing the use of MP3 players cuts the noise level in the room by
>about 85%. The players, splitters and headphones come out and the kids
>arrange themselves in various congenial configurations, casually
>juggling computing power and memory that dwarf the machines used to
>guide the first rockets to the moon.

So the MP3 players are a form of babysitting.

Isn't part of the point to banning "use and display of electronic
devices" so that pupils must engage in learning activities as
opposed to huddling together listening to misogynist popular music?

Steve