On the lighter side - one way to get students to stop looking at laptops during class

From The Chronicle - click here - February 23, 2010, 08:00 AM ET


Here's One Way to Curtail Web Surfing in the Classroom

Kieran Mullen, a condensed-matter theorist in the University of Oklahoma's department of physics and astronomy, freezes a laptop computer in liquid nitrogen, then smashes it on the floor. A student caught the classroom theatrics on video.