When Good Technology Means Bad Teaching

Giving professors gadgets without training can do more harm than good in the classroom, students say

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Alison Lesht, a senior at Connecticut College, dreaded going to her organic-chemistry classes, held in one of the college's wired classrooms.

It wasn't that the material was dense and challenging. It was because her professor "would...

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