Westside : Loyola Classroom Stresses Future Tense
No need to raise your hand in class. Just e-mail the professor.
Next month Loyola Marymount University is set to unveil a computerized “Classroom of the Future,” a key feature of the Westchester school’s new $21-million Conrad N. Hilton Center for Business.
Students, working on a network 30 laptop computers, will be able to transmit their homework to a large screen at the front of the classroom.
Such an innovation could prove more embarrassing than convenient, at least for lazy students.
But there’s no stopping technology. Via satellite hookups, students might hear lectures from business experts ensconced in their offices hundreds or thousands of miles away.
“The whiz-bang technology is great,” said school spokesman Norm Schneider.
“But what fascinates me is what they are going to be able to do with it. You don’t have to go to a [faraway] place to have a meeting anymore.”
Yes, but can all this newfangled technology actually make a statistics class bearable?
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