A row of shiny laptops has become the norm in college classrooms—but now more professors are beginning to institute laptop bans to bring their lecture halls back to a pre-mobile tech state.

A row of shiny laptops has become the norm in college classrooms—but now more professors are beginning to institute laptop bans to bring their lecture halls back to a pre-mobile tech state. A “number of studies” have shown that students learn better when taking notes by hand, and teachers are tiring of the distractions of social media. On vocal professor has proclaimed: “Allowing laptop use in class is like allowing boombox use in class .” (NYMag)