Auctioning the Right to Use Laptops in Class

This is interesting.  Ten years ago I had a conversation with a professor at Wharton who had been part of the redesign of some of the large classrooms in new buildings there.  I asked about wireless access for laptops in the rooms.  He indicated at the time that they were explicitly not including Wifi so that full attention could be preserved.  Last  I observed this is no longer the case.   The inevitability of connection being required everywhere.  Attention is brokered with the professors on a case by case basis.  See Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows .. , now reading, which relates studies indicating that this loss of attention is detrimental.