I usually prefer blackboards over PowerPoint for lots of reasons. Today in my "mind, brain, evolution" class I sketched out a neuron, replete with labels and ions and resting & synaptic & action potentials, and a synapse and the names of a few neurotransmitters/modulators. At the end I started to erase, and a student rushed down and yelled "please don't erase it yet!!" and he proceeded to take a few pictures of the blackboard with his phone. Not sure how I feel about it. Ideally, I want students to listen & think during lectures, and then organize their notes accordingly. I guess I don't care if they snap pictures of my blackboard to help them study. Do we have a generation of people who feel that anything they need to know can be obtained by a click or a snapshot? I mean, my blackboard is mostly a rough outline, and I would have to see a student rely on a grainy iPhone pic the night before the exam .... anybody think of any reason to allow this? Well, I had one - they can try to pull out the phone during exams, a iPhone cheat cheat. I'll have to make sure phones are not out during exams ...
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