So, he asked a classmate to send his lecture notes by e-mail. Dana Prudhomme, a junior who transferred from Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minn., says she once sat down in a class, logged in and got an e-mail from a classmate, asking if the teacher was passing out a quiz. When she responded no, the friend said she wouldn't be in class that day. But students and professors say class-skipping hasn't risen because of computers. To a degree, that's because some professors make class attendance part of a student's grade.
Some professors prevent students from connecting the laptop to the network during class.
But only a few don't rely on computing resources in their teaching. Slow to Follow While other schools admire UMC's lead in bringing technology into the classroom, they have been slower to copy its fervor. We thought naively that students would bring them to every class. Maybe we were conditioned by what we saw at Crookston. They aren't doing that, and that's fine.