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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Why Students Treat Teachers Like TV Sets (and How to Combat It)

In the time when smart phones with a trillion apps are the norm, students have started treating teachers like TV sets on in the background of their otherwise engaged classroom lives.

About ten years ago, I started to notice it: My high school students began to talk to each other while I was talking. Not just a quick, furtive whisper, or a surreptitious passing of notes; no, this was full on conversation taking place while I enlightened them with riveting commentary on The Great Gatsby or The Crucible.

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