Laptop Program at AUK Laptop Program at AUK

This paper tackles the issue whether AUK should provide freshmen with laptops or not. Until now, for AUK giving laptops to freshmen was attractive, but this doesn’t work out anymore. Technology was not present in our homes for many years ago. Whereas now, you can rarely find a home, which doesn’t have Internet access and that doesn’t at least have a PC. Studying at AUK means that you’re financial background is good, meaning that you have a PC and most probably a laptop at your home. Thus not necessarily, collage has to offer you one. Taken this analogy, we can conclude that almost all students have Internet access back at their home. However, providing students with laptops on their first day of collage is not a good idea because they can serve as a distraction to students and their peers while in lecture, they can distort social behavior, that money could be invested elsewhere in favor of students and there would have been not theft issue involved. Hence, AUK shouldn’t pay for laptop program.

If every student has its own laptop in the university, he or she would become addicted to it. Meaning that, even during their free time they would continue to use it for several reasons. Therefore, this factor implies that students would become isolated from the surrounding, and at the same time ignoring social interactions. This is a serious issue because students would not be friends to one another and wouldn’t spend time together. Students create their own world and become indifferent with the respect to social needs. If in any case students need any help, they would become reluctant to seek for it. This creates isolation in a sense that, while they are concentrating and doing just their obligations, they loose much more by ignor...

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...matters a lot. Students, wouldn’t be distracted easily form their tools, but rather focus on what their professor is saying during lecture. They would have walk freely down town, and not be unsecure if anybody would grab their bag, knowing that the laptop is inside. The extra money could be spending on anything that the students would agree upon. AUK would have been a much more happy place to be around.

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Houghton, Mifflin (2009), The Teaching Center, Washington University in St. Louis

The Washington post (2008) -“More colleges, professors shutting down laptops” and other digital distractions http://www.washingtonpost.

Carrie Fried ( 2006) “In class laptop use and its effects on student learning- Science Direct Carrie Fried “

http://www.mcla.edu/Academics/uploads/textWidget/3424.00018/documents/laptop_use_in_the_classroom.pdf